Martin Noël

(Berlin 1956 - 2010 Bonn)
1980 – 1987 Studied free graphics and painting at the FH Cologne, master student
Lived in Bonn on the Rhine

Preise und Stipendien (Auswahl)

2003 Arbeitsstipendium Stiftung Kunstfonds e.V., Pulheim, Germany
1998 Stipendium der Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes NRW, NRW, Germany
1998 Atelierstipendium der LETTER Stiftung Köln für New York, Köln, Germany
1993 Kunstpreis der Stadt Bonn, Bonn, Germany
1993 "aa1. Preis Linolschnitt heute", Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany
1991 Kunstpreis Junger Westen, Recklinghausen, Germany
1990 Stipendium für das Deutsche Studienzentrum, Venedig, Italy
1987 Max-Ernst-Stipendium, Brühl, Germany

Martin Noël's work is based on the ideas of Otto Freundlich (1878-1943), who played a key role in the development of modern art. He considered the line to be the essential separating feature between things, which makes spatial perception possible in the first place.
The thoughts of the English philosopher John Berger (1926-2017), in which he spoke out in favour of discovering the unnoticed, the rather meaningless in the perception of nature, are also significant for Noël.
As abstract as Martin Noël's pictures may appear, they all have their origins in the immediate, unnoticed reality addressed by Berger.
Be it the cracks in the floor of the World Trade Centre in New York after the first bomb attack in 1993, or the cracks in the walls of the houses in Venice and Paris, or the shadows of flowers that he discovered on his travels and sketched on paper.
He later cut these lines into the wood of a printing block and, in the tradition of Albrecht Dürer as a wood engraver, produced the series of his prints on paper or canvas. In doing so, he printed in a very special colour scheme based on the colour theory of Le Corbusier (1887-1965). He always printed in small editions; the larger prints were mostly one-offs.
After completing the printing work, he often declared the printing block itself to be an artistic object by covering it with colour or gold leaf, thus removing its reusability.
In his entire artistic oeuvre, Martin Noël's achievement lies in the fact that he found his own artistic position. It is dedicated to the excessive dialogue between line and surface. In doing so, he succeeded in overcoming the meaning-heavy expressive realism that prevailed in German painting during his creative period. (Text: Dr Wenzel Jacob - art historian)

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aus der Serie "Stolp"

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aus der Serie "Stolp"

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Palette

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Giardini I

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Giardini II

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Farbig

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Paris Malerie IV

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Serie "Farbig"

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Serie "kleine Ottos"

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Serie "kleine Ottos" #17

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Serie "kleine Ottos"

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Serie "kleine Ottos" #12

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Serie "kleine Ottos" #11

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Ohne Titel

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Avalo

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Talisca Negra

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Decheiver

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Starks

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El Goradillo

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San Sebastian

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Maridial

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Majona

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La Guancha

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Paris

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Paris

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Paris klein

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Serie Venedig VI

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Serie Venedig II

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Unterwegs Aquatintaradierung

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Unterwegs Aquatintaradierung