The expressive pictorial worlds of Emil Nolde (left) and Herbert Beck (right): Emil Nolde, Fantasy (three heads), 1931-1935 © Nolde Foundation Seebüll;
Herbert Beck, Self-Portrait with two Faces, ca. 1980
© Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art
HERBERT BECK MEETS EMIL NOLDE. INSPIRATION AND TRANSFORMATION
Staatsgalerie TegernseeOlaf Gulbransson Museum Tegernsee
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From 1947 onwards, the painter Herbert Beck (1920-2010) made his home in Tegernsee. Here, inspired by the watercolour painting of Emil Nolde, he developed his own expressive style, often with large fields of flat, rich colour. Over many decades he committed his artistic ideas to paper in vibrantly-coloured watercolours which seem to be lit from within.
The exhibition shows how Beck carried forward Nolde’s expressive impulse yet made it his own, producing works of arresting strangeness, poetry and mystery.
In collaboration with Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art