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Rolf Nesch was a German-Norwegian artist and is regarded as one of the greatest and most original printmakers of the 20th century. Nesch worked in a range of disciplines beginning as a painter, and until the end of the 1920s, it was the discipline 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, it was printmaking he devoted himself to the most and over the greatest number of years. Also, 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. |
