Hamburg Jetty

1910

Emil Nolde

Associated Names
Emil Nolde

Artist, German, 1867 - 1956

The image shows a perspective from a dock, overlooking a body of water. The horizon is near the top of the image with a faint haze. Smoke rises from a distant vessel on the horizon. Vertical posts line the edges of the dock. The brushstrokes are intricate and overlapping, creating a textured look. The artwork is in a monochromatic palette of deep blacks and soft whites, giving a sense of stark contrast and moodiness.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and tonal etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 31.2 × 41 cm (12 5/16 × 16 1/8 in.)
    plate: 43.8 × 59.7 cm (17 1/4 × 23 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.419

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schiefler/Mosel 1966, no. I 139, iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(R.E. Lewis, Inc., Larkspur Landing, CA); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased September 25, 1988; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1966

  • Schiefler, Gustav, and C. Mosel. Emil Nolde: das graphische Werk. 2 vols. Cologne, Germany: Verlag M. Du Mont Schauberg, 1966-1967, no. I 139, iii/iii

Inscriptions

below image, at right, in graphite: Emil Nolde; below image, at center, in graphite: Hamburg: "Landungsbrücke"; below image, at left, in graphite: III.9.

Wikidata ID

Q76556874

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