The German painter, draftsman, and graphic artist Martin No\u00ebl (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. No\u00ebl 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\u2019s creative evolution, with an emphasis on the woodcut carved into the printing plate and the woodblock\u2019s 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\u2019s migration from object to canvas. The resulting paintings are exemplary of No\u00ebl\u2019s late oeuvre.<\/p>\n
Martin No\u00ebl 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 No\u00ebl are in the German Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, Kunstsammlung Chemnitz, and the collection of Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Protagonist of the Modern Woodcut<\/strong><\/p>\n The German painter, draftsman, and graphic artist Martin No\u00ebl (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. No\u00ebl 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\u2019s creative evolution, with an emphasis on the woodcut carved into the printing plate and the woodblock\u2019s 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\u2019s migration from object to canvas. The resulting paintings are exemplary of No\u00ebl\u2019s late oeuvre.<\/p>\n Martin No\u00ebl 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 No\u00ebl are in the German Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, Kunstsammlung Chemnitz, and the collection of Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16158,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2208,2213],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16156","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-all-books","7":"product_cat-painting","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"taxable","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n