Rolf Nesch

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Rolf (Emil Rudolf) Nesch (January 7, 1893 in Esslingen, Germany - October 27, 1975 in Oslo, Norway) was a German-Norwegian artist. Nesch is regarded as one of the greatest and most original printmakers of the twentieth century.

Rolf Nesch worked in a range of disciplines. He began as a painter, and until the end of the 1920s it was painting he concentrated on most. When he left Germany and moved to Norway in 1933, he discarded canvas and paintbrushes for good, and produced the following year his first so-called material picture, and also took up sculpture. Apart from drawing, which was his natural tool and means of expression throughout, it was printmaking he devoted himself to most continuously and over the greatest number of years. And it is as printmaker that Rolf Nesch made his most significant contribution, not merely as a technical innovator who discovered the potential in new materials and methods, but also from the artistic point of view.

Rolf Nesch – Elbe Bridge I - 1932 (335x595mm)
Rolf Nesch – Elbe Bridge I - 1932 (335x595mm)

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  • Eivind Otto Hjelle, Rolf Nesch Oslo 1998.
  • Eva Wiik, Min venn Rolf Nesch, Oslo 1994.
  • Gustav Schiefler, Max Sauerlandt and Maike Bruhns, „St. Pauli“ und „Hamburger Brücken“, Hamburg 1989.
  • Wolf Stubbe, Tiere anders gesehen. Tierzeichnungen von Rolf Nesch, Hamburg 1985.
  • Max Sauerlandt, Gustav Schiefler and Wolf Stubbe et.al., Rolf Nesch: Karl Muck og hans orkester, Oslo 1977. Hamburg 1978.
  • Sidsel Helliesen and Eivind Otto Hjelle, Rolf Nesch på teaterturne til Finnmark, Oslo 1976.
  • Jan Askeland and C.H. Hudtwalcker, Rolf Nesch – Lofoten, Oslo 1976.
  • Alfred Hentzen and Wolf Stubbe, Rolf Nesch. Graphik, Berlin/Oslo 1973.
  • Jan Askeland, Rolf Nesch - Alkymisten , Oslo 1969.
  • Wolf Stubbe, Der Zyklus St.Pauli von Rolf Nesch, Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, 1965
  • Alfred Hentzen, Rolf Nesch. Graphik, Materialbilder, Plastik Stuttgart 1960, New York 1964.
  • Jan Askeland, Rolf Nesch , Oslo 1958.


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