The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 20, 2024
Hamburg, Landungsbrücke
1910
Location: not on view
Description
Emil Nolde’s melancholy image, devoid of human presence, conveys the smoggy air of Hamburg’s industrial harbor. The bold tonal contrasts and strong graphic patterns are coupled with arbitrarily etched dots in the sky—a density of atmosphere created when areas of the acid-resistant ground randomly gave way to etch the plate underneath. After a successful exhibition in 1910 in which he sold many works, Nolde rented cheap sailors’ lodgings on the waterfront of the Hamburg docks and worked furiously for three weeks, producing 19 etchings, 4 woodcuts, and many drawings.- “Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 3 (March 1960): 51–55. Reproduced: p. 53 www.jstor.org
- Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018).Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991).Eastward from the Rhine: Romanticism to Abstraction, 1800-1925. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 12-September 9, 1984).German Expressionist Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 7-October 5, 1980).The Print Club of Cleveland, 1919 - 1969: Fifty Years in Review. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 14-March 31, 1970).Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1955.505