Unpainted Pictures is the title of a fascinating watercolors series painted by Emil Nolde from 1938 through 1945. Nolde created these works in the seclusion of his own home in Seebll, after his works had been confiscated by the Nazis and he himself had been forbidden to paint. He lent many of them to friends for safekeeping, in order to protect himself and his art from Gestapo raids. These small, free, imaginative works were ''unpainted'' in the sense that they did not officially exist and were not supposed to exist--also, Nolde hoped to expand on them at a later date. He never offered any of these watercolors for sale, and today this collection--which has become, for many, the summary and epitome of his work--resides at the Nolde Foundation in Seebll. All of the 104 watercolors in the series are presented here, along with a journal, consisting of dated notes, thoughts, questions and dreams, which forms a record of the period in which the Unpainted Pictures were being created. Gorgeous, diverse and quietly moving, these Unpainted Pictures continue to be nothing short of a revelation.

Emil Nolde: Unpainted Pictures

Newman, Barnett

Reuther, Manfred

Nolde, Jolanthe

Nolde, Emil

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Hatje Cantz

Emil Nolde is regarded as one of the most noteworthy Expressionist painters. Portraits play a prominent role in the artist's oeuvre, particularly those of his early creative period. During those years in which Nolde's art developed to maturity, his painting was enriched by an innovative power that inspired later artists well into the twentieth century. Some 60 of the unparalleled portraits completed by Emil Nolde between 1903 and 1918 are presented and described in this book. These works include the masterful self-portraits of 1916-17, the famous double portrait Brother and Sister of 1918, and his portrait-style images of people he encountered while traveling in New Guinea from 1913 to 1914. The autonomy and immediacy of Nolde's painting is particularly evident in these works. Fascinated by the obscure inner-stirrings of human identity, he developed an unusal, gestural mode of painting.

Emil Nolde: Blick Kontakte, Fruhe Portrats / Eye Contact, Early Portraits (German and English Edition)

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Hatje Cantz Publishers

This new title in DuMont's themed Emil Nolde series, which includes Wanderlust and Unpainted Pictures, is devoted to the painter's garden and flower pictures. Wherever he settled, Nolde always planted a flower garden. Sitting in front of his floral arrangements, this great colorist produced numerous watercolors and oils (though the latter were done indoors, in his studio). Nolde's garden at Seebüll is a particular focus of this volume, and one of the artist's most marvelous creations, designed as it is around motifs using the the initials A and E (for his wife Ada and his own name). A sumptuous compilation, My Garden Full of Flowers records an enduring love affair and one of art's finest virtuosos of color at the peak of his achievement.

Emil Nolde: My Garden Full of Flowers

DuMont

In 1941, the president of the Reichs Chamber of the Visual Arts in Berlin prohibited the painter Emil Nolde "from all professional activities in the field of the visual arts." "I was in the midst of beautiful, productive painting when this ban on painting and selling arrived," Nolde recalled later. "The brush fell out of my hand." Nolde continued to paint during the eight years of his ostracism from his home in Seebüll. He called the more than 1,300 small-format watercolors and gouaches that he produced "unpainted pictures," and wrote that "The small works on paper provided me with great pleasure personally and as a painter." This book illustrates over 100 of these works-more than 50 of them for the first time-as well as selected oil paintings.

Garbrecht, Jörg

Dumont Buchverlag

A recurrent theme for Emil Nolde was the portrayal of women, cast in roles to which the artist brought his troubled projections: woman as mother, muse, model, music hall girl; saints, sinners and seductresses. Here, color reproductions of 50 of Nolde's paintings are examined alongside works by artists from Giorgione and Klimt to Munch and Warhol.

Emil Nolde Paints Women: Admired, Feared, and Desired (English and German Edition)

Garbrecht, Joerg

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Emil Nolde: Unpainted Pictures

Emil Nolde: Blick Kontakte, Fruhe Portrats / Eye Contact, Early Portraits (German and English Edition)

Emil Nolde: My Garden Full of Flowers

Emil Nolde: Unpainted Pictures

Emil Nolde Paints Women: Admired, Feared, and Desired (English and German Edition)