1957 Vintage Print Plate Emil Nolde Holy Night 1912 Expressionist Die Brucke

Description: "Holy Night, 1912" Source: Emil Nolde, published in 1957 Description Title: "This painting is part of a cycle of nine scenes from the life of Christ, which are arranged like a medieval altar- piece, the central panel (7/2 x 6 feet) showing the Crucifixion, the left wing the Holy Night, Twelve-Year- Old Christ, The Three Kings, and Christ and Judas, and the right wing, The Resurrection, The Ascension, Women at the Tomb, and the Doubting Thomas. It was while he worked on Holy Night that the arrangement suggested itself to him. During the winter of 1911-1912 Nolde felt a compulsion to paint. He writes: 'In Berlin, Ada being away, I kept my door locked. I painted and painted, night and day, even more often at night than in the daytime, sometimes far into the early morning hours. I painted People at the Village Inn, Husband and Wife, Smith and Clergyman. And then I painted Holy Night, with the star gleaming in the sky, and Mary with arms outstretched holding her divine son, Jesus, in the extremity of maternal bliss.' The previous summer he had painted three other scenes from the Life of Christ, blurred in outline, and dissolved almost to the point of formlessness by the flickering color laid on in broad patches, as though he had given up his former attempt to achieve firmer structure, so notable in his religious paintings of 1910. He had them aside, dissatisfied. They happened to stand next to each other in his studio, and this circumstance gave him the idea of the cycle in which the various scenes, instead of appearing as isolated easel paintings, would form a meaningful whole. 'I painted the Resurrection in lavender morning air, and then my great canvas of the Crucifixion. Then I painted three more canvases, so that, including the three painted the summer before, they constituted a work in nine parts... The Life of Christ.' (Ibid. pp. 170 ff.) Reacting sharply away from the blurred forms of the preceding years' paintings, Nolde reduced all the pictorial elements to their essentials. Only the main characters in the legend are shown, as is the case in peasant paintings on glass. The Mother of God sitting up bed smilingly holds up her child toward the star in the blue night sky; Joseph is seen at the left and the donkey at the right; in the background three shepherds are trudging over the green surface. With their naïvely simplified silhouettes the figures are expressive as pictorial signs, the surface being structured without regard for the illusion of space, solely according to the requirements of the narrative. The lighting, too, is treated as a purely expressive element. All the elements of the picture are divested of their representational functions, serving solely evocative ends. The painting serves as a non-naturalistic stage upon which the colors blaze in their simple complementary relations-green to red, black to white, blue to yellow-giving off a fairy-tale glow. The radiant yellow of the Mother of God is most intense; over its golden path the rose-colored child rises to the blue of the sky, so that the child itself shines like a star. By reducing his means to their elementary independent functions, the painter now realizes what he has been striving for all along-'absolute primitiveness, intensive, often grotesque expression in the simplest possible form." Unique and distinctive. Suitable for framing. *All prints are book plates / pages that are professionally removed from an original published book or other type of publication. May have text and or illustrations on reverse side. 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