Retrato de Emy (obra de arte)
Información sobre la obra de arte
Key Ideas
- Karl Schmidt-Rottluff painted this portrait of his wife during their first year of marriage. He aimed to express how he felt about her rather than depict her realistically.
- Schmidt-Rottluff fue uno de los fundadores del expresionismo alemánun movimiento artístico de principios del siglo XX. Los artistas expresionistas creaban obras que mostraban sus pensamientos y sentimientos internos en lugar de hacer arte de apariencia realista.
- Schmidt-Rottluff también se vio influenciado por el cubismoun movimiento artístico del siglo XX. Se centraba en romper los objetos tridimensionales para que parecieran bidimensionales.
- Over 600 works by Schmidt-Rottluff were taken by the Nazis in the 1930s. Some of them were displayed in a “degenerate” art exhibition that was intended to mock and embarrass modern artists.
- Portrait of Emy was purchased by William R. Valentiner in 1919. He later became the first director of the North Carolina Museum of Art.
Más información
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff created this painting during his first year of marriage to Emy Frisch. It depicts his wife’s face as a bold yet calm mask. The bright colors represent Emy’s lively and confident personality and the artist’s feelings about his wife.
I have no program, only the inner longing to grasp what I see and feel and to find the purest expression for it. I know I can approach these things only through art, rather than thoughts or words.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Portrait of Emy shows the influence of the German expressionist and cubist art movements. Both art styles were designed to move away from the Western traditions of making art that looks realistic. Schmidt-Rottluff was one of the founders of the German expressionist art movement. Expressionist artists used abstract shapes, bold lines, and bright colors to communicate their feelings in their work. Cubist artists often simplified a subject into geometric shapes that showed different angles of the subject all at once. Many cubist artists were inspired by African art. In Portrait of Emy, the artist painted his wife’s face to resemble an African mask.
Schmidt-Rottluff’s wildly colorful artworks were not appreciated by everyone. A reproduction of Portrait of Emy was published in the 1928 book Kunst und Rasse (Art and Race) by Paul Schultz-Naumburg. Schultz-Naumburg’s celebration of “racially pure” Aryan art over “impure” and “sick” modern art influenced the policies of Hitler and the Nazi party. When the Nazis took control of Germany in the 1930s, they believed modern art to be “degenerate,” or immoral. Modern art represented the values the Nazis opposed. They stole, sold, and destroyed tens of thousands of artworks, including more than 600 paintings by Schmidt-Rottluff. The Nazis even displayed works of modern art in what they called the Degenerate Art exhibition. The exhibition was intended to insult and shame the artists.
Recursos adicionales
Recursos para los profesores:
- Explore un plan de clases en la que los alumnos crean retratos expresivos de su yo pasado, presente y futuro.
- Descubra cómo aplicar la Taxonomía de Bloom a esta obra de arte.
- Vea un vídeo sobre la campaña nazi contra el arte "degenerado".
Recursos para los estudiantes:
- Vea un vídeo sobre la expresión de las emociones a través del arte.
- Explore otros cuadros de Schmidt-Rottluff.
- Haga un test para saber con qué movimiento artístico se identifica más.
Imágenes
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Retrato de Emy
A painting depicting a woman whose face resembles a multicolored mask. She is resting her chin on her hand. She has short hair, and she is dressed in a dark-colored shirt with a teal collar and a blue and yellow necklace. The background of the painting is bright orange.