The Village Blacksmith
1910
Emil Nolde (German, 1867-1956)
Not on View

Nolde worked in a furniture factory, then became an art student and studied briefly in Paris in 1899. His first one-man exhibit in Dresden in 1905 brought him to the attention of the Brücke artists, and in 1906 he joined their group for a brief period. Nolde was honored by a major retrospective in 1927, but ten years later the Nazis declared his art "degenerate" and confiscated more than 1,000 of his works. Forbidden to paint in 1941, he secretly painted small watercolors, which he named his "unpainted pictures."

Details

  • Artist Name: Emil Nolde (German, 1867-1956)
  • Title: The Village Blacksmith
  • Date: 1910
  • Medium: Watercolor on Japanese wove paper
  • Dimensions: 12-5/8 x 18-7/8 in. (32.1 x 47.9 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.295
  • Copyright: © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll

Object Information

The artist, probably sold by 1924 to;
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.

Works by the Die Brucke Artists

  • Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-04-24 to 1973-06-03

German Expressionist Exhibition

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1988-05-19 to 1989-06-18

Contemporary German Watercolor Painting

  • California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1936-06-06 to 1936-08-01

Expressionists

  • Los Angeles, Hollywood Gallery of Modern Art (Lorser Feitelson), 1935 to ?-

European Modernists

  • Los Angeles, California School of Fine Arts, 1927-04 to ?-

Thirty European Modernists

  • Oakland Art Gallery, 1928-01-04 to 1928-01-29

The Galka Scheyer Collection: Klee, Nolde, Jawlensky, Moholy-Nagy, Schmidt-Rottluff, Schwitters, Archipenko, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Feininger, Kirchner, Dix_1

  • La Jolla, Art Center in La Jolla, 1960-07-05 to 1960-08-14

From Europe to California: Galka Scheyer and the Avant-Garde

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2003-05-16 to 2003-10-13

Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973

  • Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 419 pp. 139, 151
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 396 pp. 390-391

Additional Artwork by Artist

Dancing Girl Emil Nolde 1911
Egyptian Woman II Emil Nolde 1910
Flowers in a Vase Emil Nolde c. 1930

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