Hamburg, Schif im Dock (Hamburg, Ship in the Dock)
Artist: Emil Nolde (German, 1867-1956)
Date: 1910
Dimensions:
Overall: 17 1/2 x 23 7/16 in. (44.4 x 59.5 cm);
Plate: 12 3/16 x 16 1/8 in. (31 x 41 cm)
Medium: Etching
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1986.11
Label Text:In 1910, Emil Nolde was in Hamburg for the opening of a retrospective of his work. Disappearing into a cheap sailors’ inn on the waterfront, over the next two weeks he produced an extraordinary burst of etchings, woodcuts, and drawings of the docks and harbor. He would draw with a metal tool on copper plates while on the docks, then at home place the plates in an acid bath to "bite" the lines. He experimented with different tools, scratching tangles of lines, and with various applications of acid, to evoke the smoke, steam, smog, and swelling waves. Nolde later wrote, “The resulting etchings had din and roar, tumult and smoke and life, but only a little sun.”
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