Prophet

© Nolde Stiftung Seebüll, Germany
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Prophet

Edition: From edition of about 20

Germany, 1912
Prints; woodcuts
woodcut
Image: 12 5/8 × 8 3/8 in. (32.07 × 21.27 cm) Sheet: 16 3/8 × 12 3/4 in. (41.59 × 32.39 cm)
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies (M.82.288.239)
Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Currently on public view:
Resnick Pavilion, floor 1

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Emil Nolde’s Prophet is one of the artist’s best-known works and exemplifies the German Expressionist woodcut....
Emil Nolde’s Prophet is one of the artist’s best-known works and exemplifies the German Expressionist woodcut. The Christ-like visage emerges from the sheet, evoking the Sudarium, a relic said to depict the face of Christ that miraculously appeared on a piece of cloth. But the print also retains the rough contours of carved wood, an image grounded in its material. This suggestion of an identity rooted in wood, a material with a mythological association to German history and culture, has disturbing resonances with Nolde’s later embrace of Nazi ideology.

Exhibition Label: The Expressive Gaze: Portraits and Self-Portraits, 2022, Erin Maynes
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Bibliography

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