1957 Vintage Print Plate Emil Nolde Tropical Sun 1914 Expressionist Die Brucke

Description: "Tropical Sun, 1914" Source: Emil Nolde, published in 1957 Description Title: "After a long journey through Russia, Korea, Japan, and China as a member of an expedition organized by the German Colonial Office, Nolde reached Rabaul early in 1914. He at once began to make drawings and watercolors of native settlements. During a trip in the interior he contracted amoebic dysentery and was hospitalized for several weeks. When he re- covered he made a trip to the island of New Ireland (then Neu-Mecklenburg), and in March began to record his first impressions on large canvases, working after his sketches and from memory. Tropical Sun seems to be the first of these paintings. He executed it at Kaevieng (a town at the northern tip of New Ireland); and the narrow strip of land seen here is probably the small island of Nusalik. But this painting has kept little of its representational point of departure. Its strong dynamic rhythms unfold in a decorative pattern, constituting a poetic paraphrase rather than a reproduction of some specific landscape or mood. Under the glowing red-orange sunset, with the sky slashed by violet clouds, the luminous sea surges wildly in front of dark-green woods. Oncoming breakers in the foreground and the spurting foam reflect the sky's cosmic restlessness and emphasize the drama of expiring daylight. The painting is built upon the dramatic contrast between the complementarities red and green. Violet and orange modulations give the over-all palette a dark tonality and hold it in a tense equilibrium. The white rhythms of the breaking waves underline the dramatic effect and enrich the decorative pattern with their swirling tumult. Nolde had treated this theme before. He had often tried to paint the epic of light, beginning with a small water color showing the red disc of the sun, painted during his years in St. Gallen. He returned to it time and again. This painting is a visual poem; it was inspired by a specific locale, which, however, awakened a feeling that had long been dormant in the painter. Significantly, Nolde wrote later that "it was not the colors" that impressed him most in the tropics. He found the northern countries more colorful. We may conjecture that in this glowing painting, which he conceived in a setting new to him, a deeply buried allegorical image of the death of light achieved definitive expression. This is the first large canvas among many glowing sunsets that inspired Nolde." 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. Specifications:Stored in a dry, clean environment100% authentic - no photocopy or reproduction Approximate overall Dimensions: 12.75 x 9.5 inchesCondition: Very Good and well preserved. 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