Martin Noël
The Retrospective

Editor(s)

Estate Noël (Margarete und Cora Noël, Dr. Wenzel Jacob)

Author(s)

Achim Gnann, Constanze Malissa, Cora Anna Noël, Leonie Pfennig, Klaus Albrecht Schröder

Design

Kaisers Ideenreich

Cover

Hardcover with flush cut

Size

24 x 28 cm

Pages

224

Illustrations

250

Language(s)

German, English

ISBN

978-3-96912-063-7

The Protagonist of the Modern Woodcut

The German painter, draftsman, and graphic artist Martin Noël (b. Berlin, 1956; d. Bonn, 2010) played a leading role in reviving the linocut and the woodcut, two techniques that had long been eclipsed by other media. In his large-format works on paper, he staked out a widely regarded and distinctive position in contemporary art. Noël was especially interested in the compositional relationship between line and surface. Released on occasion of the retrospective of his oeuvre at the Albertina, Vienna, this book presents an overview of the most important periods in the artist’s creative evolution, with an emphasis on the woodcut carved into the printing plate and the woodblock’s subsequent emancipation as an art object in its own right. Particular attention is paid to the application of ink to the surface and its painterly structure as well as the picture’s migration from object to canvas. The resulting paintings are exemplary of Noël’s late oeuvre.

Martin Noël studied graphic art and painting at what is now the Cologne University of Arts and Sciences. His art garnered numerous prizes and other honors, including fellowships from Kunststiftung NRW, Stiftung Kunstfonds, and Letter Stiftung. Works by Noël are in the German Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, Kunstsammlung Chemnitz, and the collection of Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern.

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