1957 Vintage Print Plate Emil Nolde The Sea 1913 Expressionist Die Brucke

Description: "The Sea, 1913" Source: Emil Nolde, published in 1957 Description Title: "The sea was an important element of Nolde's experience of nature. His native Schleswig is situated between two seas; his studio on Alsen was right on the beach, scarcely a stone's throw from the water. 'I often stood at the window, lost in prolonged contemplation of the sea,' he writes. 'Nothing but sea and sky. There was no sound but the occasional, soft, dreamlike splash of the waves against the shingle.' (Years of Struggles, p. 28.) But he also knew the sea when it was unleashed in all its fury. One day he was sailing home from Anholt, a tiny island in the Kattegat, in a small cutter. 'Watching with amazement, I had to hold on with all my strength to the handrail, tossed every which way with the ship and the waves. The experience left such a strong impression on me that for years I painted seas with wildly rolling green waves, and only a tiny bit of yellow sky at the upper corners.' (Ibid. p. 98.) The painting shown here is obviously one of these seascapes. Nolde goes on to say: 'If a wave breaking over the deck had swept me overboard, and if I had to fight for my life against the element, would I have been able to paint the sea even more powerfully?' It is just such a surrender to the elemental forces of nature that Nolde expresses in his picture. As early as 1901 he had painted several gray-toned seascapes; in 1910-1911 there followed the series of twenty Autumn Seas showing the monotonous surface of the water in which sea and sky merge in a gray light flickering with iridescent color reflections. In 1912 he painted his first waves. The painting of 1913 shown here marks the first high point of the series. Nolde was to treat this theme frequently during the rest of his life. The essentials are indicated in large, concise, elementary forms-the dark surges of the sea with their quivering white crests, and above them a narrow strip of the sulfurous sky painted in a green shot through with yellows, some of which are are reflected in the waves. All we see is two breakers, and behind them the tremendous heaving of the waters. Artist and viewer alike are placed in the midst of the elements. It is the sense of threatening presence all around the viewer that accounts for the powerful impact this painting makes. Nevertheless, we can see that the spontaneous expression is disciplined by a definite artistic intention. The foaming breakers are arranged in harmonious balance to form a single ornamental pattern. This pattern unifies the painting, weaving its rhythm through the composition and tying it firmly to the surface." Unique and distinctive. 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