Nolde's art reflects a life spent shuttling between the raw nature of the Nordic coast and the metropolis of Berlin. He portrays the people of his native rural villages with powerful gravity, using a consciously archaic style,while the city types are captured with nervous, vibrating brushstrokes. Nolde observes the natives he encounters on his voyage to New Guinea in 1913-14 with fascination.

Emil Nolde (1867-1956) z~ihlt zu den bedeutendsten Malern des Expressionismus. Portraits sind im Gesamtwerk des Kunstlers ein herausragendes Genre - insbesondere in seiner friihen Schaffensphase. Notde durchlebt einen Prozess der Reifung, seine Malerei entfaltet eine innovative Kraft, die his sp~it in das 20. Jahrhundeft hinein kiinstlerische Entwicklungen inspiriert.Rund 50 der einzigartigen gildnisse Emil Noldes, die in den Jahren 1903 his 1918 entstanden, zeigt und beschreibt dieses Buch. Zu den vorgestellten Gemfilden geh6ren die meisterhaften Selbstportr/its von 1917,das beruhmte Doppelbildnis Bruder und 5chwester von 1918 sowie die Darstellungen von Menschen, de nen Nolde 1913/14 auf seiner Reise nach Neuguinea begegnete.Das Portrait ist die Gattung, in der Emil Noldes Eigenst~ndigkeit und Unmittelbarkeit der Malerei auf besonders intensive Weise anschaulich wird. Die innere Bewegtheit und Fremdheit menschlicher Identit it fordert den Kiinstler zu einer ungew6hnlichen gestalterischen Gestik heraus: Der malerische Vortrag wirkt geradezu informell, wie vom Gegenstand befreit. Gesichter und Menschenbilder erscheinen wie neu erschaffen.

Emil Nolde (1867-1956) is regarded as one of the most noteworthy Expressionist painters. Portraits play a prominent role in the artist's oeuvre, particularly during 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 fifty 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 1917, the famous double portrait Brother and Sister of 1918, and his portrait-style images of people Nolde enCountered while traveling in New Guinea in 1913-14.The autonomy and immediacy of Emil Nolde's painting is particularly evident in his portraits. Fascinated by the obscure inner stirrings of human identity, the artist was challenged to develop an unusual, gestural mode of expression in his portraits. His painting style appears highly informal, as if emancipated from the object. Faces and human images have the look of original creations.

VORWORT

FOREWORD

Tilman Osterwold

EMIL NOLDE - SPRACHEN DER PORTRATS

EMIL NOLDE--THE LANGUAGE OF THE PORTRAITS

Brigitte Reinhardt

EMIL NOLDE - DIE FRAU IM PORTRAT

NOLDE"S PORTRAITS OF WOMEN

Manfred Reuther

EMIL NOLDE BIOGRAFISCHE UBERSICHT

EMIL NOLDE BIOGRAPHICAL OVERVIEW

AUSGESTELLTEWERKE / WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION

BIBLIOGRAFIE/ BIBLIOGRAPHY