1957 Vintage Print Plate Emil Nolde Self Portrait 1947 Expressionist

Description: "Self Portrait, 1947" Source: Emil Nolde, published in 1957 Description Title: "Nolde painted four self-portraits, in addition to a double portrait of himself and Ada (1916). Each records a climactic moment in his life. The first, done in 1899, at the conclusion of his apprenticeship years in Munich, is gray-toned. There were two self-portraits in 1917, when Nolde turned fifty. One of these (frontispiece) shows him in sharply contrasting light and dark colors, with bright blue eyes. Now, in 1947, he painted himself for the last time in celebration of his eightieth birthday. The portrait is an extraordinarily good likeness, according to the painter's closest friends, as well as an excellent character study. It is a very quiet, simple portrait showing the painter in his everyday clothes, his features untroubled; his eyes are fixed at some distant point. We can see that Nolde, alone with his dreams and visions, held himself aloof from 'life.' This is a last portrait also in another sense. Here Nolde for the last time confronted the natural image, the visible model, setting aside the dream world in which he had immersed himself ever since the 'Unpainted Pictures.' It is interesting to observe how this direct contact with nature conjures up again the style that had been Nolde's starting point-Post-Impressionism. There is scarcely a trace of the vehemence or other characteristic of his mature manner. Returns to earlier styles are often to be observed in the late periods of great masters. But, as mentioned above, this is a return with superior equipment. For if we compare this portrait with Nolde's early works in the Impressionist manner, we find that his treatment of color and his way of defining objects have become spiritualist. The Impressionist texture has taken on a lyrical quality. This poetic reinterpretation of the object- and light- defining functions of color brings to mind Bonnard. Bonnard was Nolde's exact contemporary. The fact that the two painters belonged to the same generation may account for several hidden similarities between them. Some of Nolde's works are a summing up of Impressionism much as Bonnard's are, though Bonnard's way of doing this remained characteristically French. Future historians, better able to discern the logic presiding over the development of modern European art, will see the two painters as closely related. Like Bonnard like Monet in his late period, Nolde transformed the Impressionist description of nature into pure pictorial poetry. It is true, however, that the German paid less homage to form and more to the expression of a romantic mythology of nature. This often led to what Klee termed 'a script not without flaws.' We may apply this observation to this last self-portrait." Unique and distinctive. 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