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Stine or Head of a Woman
NOLDE, Emil
Woodcut on tan wove paper. Reference: Schiefler 24. One of three impressions of the first state. There are, according to Schiefler, also two impres...
View full detailsEmil NOLDE
Born Emil Hansen in 1867 near the Danish-German border, he initially trained as a woodcarver before turning to art and adopting the name Nolde, after his birthplace, in 1902. Nolde treated printmaking as an independent and intensely experimental practice, creating one of the most powerful, innovative, and recognizable graphic languages of German Expressionism. He produced more than 500 prints, principally etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs, often working through multiple states and printing in very small numbers. His rough-cut forms and restless mark-making transformed faces, religious subjects, landscapes, and scenes of modern life into images of extraordinary raw emotional force.
In 1906, Nolde briefly joined the Expressionist group Die Brücke. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff introduced him to woodcut, while Nolde shared his innovative etching techniques with the younger artists. Although he left the group after only a year, this exchange helped establish printmaking as a central language of German modernism.