Indepth Arts News:
"Emil Nolde: Legend, Vision, Ecstasy"
2000-12-08 until 0000-00-00
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Hamburg, ,
DE
Emil Nolde. This new exhibition consists of around 70 works with
religious themes, painted by Nolde between 1909 and the
mid-1920s. The artist's religious paintings demonstrate a great
intensity and expressiveness; they include some of his strongest
figurative paint-ings, and reveal his quest for deeper spiritual
understanding. The religious paintings marked the beginning of
a new artistic phase for Nolde, not only in terms of content.
Through these works he also discovered new possibilities of
stylistic expression which gained him independence from
Impressionism. He focussed on the portrayal of inner visions
instead of the reproduction of sensory impressions, preferred extremes of spirituality to the depiction
of everyday subjects and replaced fluidity of form with an expressively heightened, autonomous
colourfulness.
The exhibition also includes paintings which feature rapturous
depictions of dance, illustrating the fact that Nolde was not
interested in religion in a conventional sense, but rather in
exploring borderline ecstatic experiences and elementary forms
of sen-suality. This exhibititon in the Hamburg Kunsthalle is
related to one shown in St. Catherine's church in Lübeck in
1921, organized by Carl Georg Heise with the support of Gustav
Pauli, then Director of the Hamburg Kunsthalle. This is the first
time all of Nolde's three-part work »Maria Aegyptiaca« for the
museum collection will be exhibited together.
IMAGE:
Emil Nolde
Die heilige Maria Ägyptiaca, 1912.
(Im Hafen von Alexandrien)
© Elke Walford, Hamburger Kunsthalle.
© Nolde-Stiftung Seebüll
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