id:			166639
accession number:	2008.36
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.36
updated:		2020-11-04 22:03:15.018000

Goldsmiths, 1919. Emil Nolde (German, 1876-1956). Oil on wood; framed: 90.2 x 72.4 x 5.1 cm (35 1/2 x 28 1/2 x 2 in.); unframed: 69 x 51 cm (27 3/16 x 20 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2008.36

title:				Goldsmiths
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creation date:			1919
creation date earliest:		1919
creation date latest:		1919
current location:		225 German Expressionism & Surrealism
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	Germany, 20th century
technique:	oil on wood
department:	Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Emil Nolde (German, 1876-1956)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 90.2 x 72.4 x 5.1 cm (35 1/2 x 28 1/2 x 2 in.); Unframed: 69 x 51 cm (27 3/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
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	inscription:	signed. lower right: "Emil Nolde"; 1919
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Betty Krulik Fine Art, Ltd., New York, NY, 2008, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 2008
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2008-
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fun fact: 
Emile Node once stated: "Every color holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus."

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A leading artist of the German Expressionist group Die Brücke (The Bridge), Nolde criticized French modernism as overly intellectual and tepid. Seeking a new art of radically simplified form and emotive color, he found inspiration in Oceanic sculpture and the medieval paintings of Matthias Grünewald. Deeply religious, Nolde depicted biblical subjects with a deliberately crude, ferocious vigor intended to elevate spirituality over descriptive form. This painting may allude to two goldsmiths divinely selected to make religious objects, and whose work so pleased God that Moses blessed them (Exodus 35:30-43). Such images are not literal illustrations, Nolde explained, but visions that sprang from his own imagination, driven by the spontaneous release of emotion. "In art" he wrote, "I fight for unconscious creation. Labor destroys paintings."
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