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Item Number: 116457
Title: EMIL NOLDE : Die religiösen Bilder : The Religious Paintings
Author: Reuther, Manfred ; Christian Ring
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783832194307
Description: Köln: DuMont, 2011. 30cm., hardcover, 158pp., 90 color, 30 b&w illus. German-English text. Exhibition held at Nolde Stiftung Seebüll in der Dependance Berlin. Summary: Emil Nolde himself considered his “biblical and legend pictures” to be the zenith of his artistic production. He numbered about 50 paintings to this canon in a handwritten note but many more can be allocated to it. “The vision of the Child of yore came alive again while I sat, deeply moved, reading the Bible during long winter evenings. They were pictures which I read, richest oriental fantasy. They incessantly whirled up before my mind’s eye until later, much later, the now adult man and artist painted and painted them in a dreamlike inspiration.” The publication gathers together highlights from this group of works, among them the 1921 “Martyrdom” triptych and the nine-part “Life of Christ” from 1911/12. The latter has a firm place at Seebüll and was only lent in recent years on special occasions. This new volume from the large Nolde series is a compendium on the painter’s “biblical and legend pictures” with new contributions and a comprehensive overview on this complex of works. Aside from Manfred Reuther’s essay on Nolde’s religiosity and the connection between the biblically-themed paintings and his “Fantasies” and figural pictures, Christian Ring examines the reception history of the “biblical and legend pictures” until about 1937.
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