Self-portrait by Emil Nolde
Etching, 1905.
Art work details
- Original Title :
- Der Maler Selbstbildnis
- Year of production :
- 1905
- Artist:
- Emil Nolde
- Medium :
- Original print, Etching
- Materials:
- Ink, Paper
- Dimensions :
- height: 17.8 cms; width: 12.9 cms
- Credit Line :
- Purchased from Fischer Fine Art with MGC/V&A Purchase Grant Fund assistance
- Copyright :
- © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll
- Associated Groups :
- Die Brücke
- Tags:
- Self Portrait, Etching, Nolde
During his brief membership of the Brücke, Nolde taught the other artists his etching technique, expressing subtle emotional and psychological feelings through use of dramatic light and shade (chiaroscuro). In this self-portrait his head emerges ghost-like from the dark layer of vertical lines, possessed of a strange earnest quality.
