Self-portrait by Emil Nolde

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.