Rolf Nesch
Rolf Nesch ( born January 7, 1893 in Upper Esslingen am Neckar, † 27 October 1975, in Oslo, actually: Emil Rudolf Nesch ) was a German - Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
Life
After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter and the visit of the Royal. School of Applied Arts in Stuttgart (1909-1912) he came to Dresden in 1912 and worked as a journeyman painter. He was inducted into the Academy. During the war he had to interrupt his studies, he came into English captivity.
In 1919 he took up the study in Dresden at Oskar Kokoschka again and received a master 's studio. In 1924 he visited Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in Davos. Kirchner had a huge stylistic and technical influence on Rolf Nesch.
Importance
By chance Rolf Nesch discovered in 1925 the lighting effects that emerged in etched through an etching plate in print and used this henceforth consciously as an artistic method.
In 1929, Rolf Nesch down in Hamburg, was a member of the Hamburg Secession. The images from this time he destroyed later.
When Max Sauerlandt, then director of the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg, his 1931 Senate Order mediated, Karl Muck and his orchestra to portray, he created after numerous preparation, a number of etchings in which he used this Durchätzungen.
Invention of the metal pressure
A year later he erased the cycle of Hamburg bridges. He had sawed to partly into individual templates Plates - a procedure for which it has inspired woodcuts of Edvard Munch. And he, he experimented by combined high - and low- pressure process with wires and bars, which he aufschweißte to the printing plates.
He had also invented the metal-printing technique.
Material images
1933, the same year as the Hamburg Secession broke up a protest against the pressure of the Nazis against Jewish -born Secession artists themselves, Nesch went into exile to Norway. There, he expanded his invention of technology, he enriched the images with flotsam, pieces of glass, cork, inter alia, in the direction of material images to. Rolf Nesch has tried to merge look and feel of the material and the design of a unit.
1936 was a contact to also emigrated to Norway Dada artist Kurt Schwitters.
During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany in 1943 Nesch should be drafted for military service. By selbsverschuldeten tram accident in which he incurred serious injuries, he escaped from access by the Reichswehr. As a result of the accident occurred paralysis and seizures that never ausheilten. For a time he could not work.
1946 Nesch got Norwegian citizenship. In 1950 he married the Norwegian actress Ragnhild Hald. This was followed by a trip to New York.
Rolf Nesch will be remembered as innovators of graphic techniques in the art history of the 20th century. In this medium, he scored revolutionary advancements that are completely new forms of artistic expression made it possible. In Norway, he is considered one of the greatest artists of the country.
Rolf Nesch took part in documenta 1 (1955), Documenta II ( 1959), and also the documenta III in Kassel in 1964.
Rolf Nesch died in Oslo at the age of 82 years on 27 October 1975.
Significant works
- Jetties (canvas, 1933, Hamburg, collection Holthusen )
- Elbchausee ( canvas, 1931, Cologne, Wallraf -Richartz Museum, Cologne)
- S. Marco ( copper plates with metal pieces, 1961, Stuttgart, Belser - house )
- St. Sebastian ( copper plates with colored glass and marble, 1941-1943, Stuttgart, Galerie der Stadt )
- Lofotenfischer drag nets ( zinc plates with soldered zinc strips, partially lined with brass, 1936-1937, Stuttgart State Gallery )
- Karl Muck and his orchestra ( etching cycle - metal printing, graphic collection of the Hamburger Sparkasse, Hamburg)
- Hamburger bridges ( etching cycle - metal printing, graphic collection of the Hamburger Sparkasse, Hamburg)
Honors
Rolf- Nesch Museum
The largest permanent exhibition of works by the German -born artist Rolf Nesch.
1951 draws Rolf Nesch to farm Ragnhildrud in Ål (Norway) and lives the next 20 years there. The Nesch Museum in Ål culture center (Norway ) was opened in 1993.
The exhibition includes prints, sculpture, painting and material - working and shows a representative selection of the artistic life's work of Rolf Nesch, from 1961 until his death in 1975.