Emil Nolde's Biblical Paintings of 1909

• Autores: William Benjamin Sieger
• Localización: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, ISSN 0044-2992, Vol. 73, Nº. 2, 2010, págs. 255-272
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • A study of German artist Emil Nolde's Biblical paintings of 1909. In the summer of that year, Nolde created the first four paintings in a series of 50 pictures with religious subjects that he went on to produce until his death in 1956. Those early works were functional to his aim of turning away from an early Impressionistic manner marked by contemporary subjects that had dominated his work since 1903 and toward the dramatic, new expressionistic style for which he is renowned while infusing his work with spiritual content. In them, he devised compositional schemes while establishing stylistic features and artistic strategies that would inform many of the remaining works in the series. The new motifs he invented and the new pictorial formulation he devised could bridge the extremes of progressive abstract and expressionistic form, and traditional literary content.