Emil Nolde Portofolio of Fine Lithographs, 1963, Germany

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Fine lithographs by artist EMIL NOLDE printed in Germany, 1963. A portfolio of more than 30 prints, all in fine … Read more Fine lithographs by artist EMIL NOLDE printed in Germany, 1963. A portfolio of more than 30 prints, all in fine condition, with beautiful, rich colors and detail. Each print is 9.5" wide x 12.75" high with small border around each image. Perfect for matting and framing.
Verlag M. Dumont Schauberg, Cologne, Germany

In 1937 Nolde, one of the leaders of German Expressionism and an enthusiastic supporter of Nazism, was rejected and branded a “degenerate” artist by the Nazis and included in their notorious 1937 exhibition “Entartete Kunst” (“Degenerate Art”), presented for derision as ugly and anti-German in spirit, imbued instead with the polluting aesthetics of Africa, Bolshevism, and Jewry. More than 1000 of his paintings were removed from museums around Germany. In 1941 he was forbidden to paint anything, so he went into hiding and created these “unpainted pictures” – small works of watercolor on paper because the smell of oil paint would have betrayed him. These vivid reproductions are printed in a nine and ten plate process. All of Nolde’s larger oil paintings, more than 105, produced after the war, came from these small works on paper.
His story could be seen as a case study in the ambiguities, ironies, and absurdity of the intersection between art and politics in the 20th century. See less