Nono Reinhold - Large - 1984 - hand-colored relief print Etching - very small edition (15) - Sold

• Title: no title
• Year: 1984
• Dimensions sheet: 64 cm x 48 cm (Image: 39 cm x 29 cm)
• Edition: 15
• Signed: Yes, handwritten in pencil (bottom right)
• Material: Etching on handmade paper
• Framed: No
• Condition: In very good condition.

Nono Reinhold was born in Haarlem as the daughter of Dr. Thomas Reinhold (1890–1955) and Hendrika van Groningen (1895–1979), and grew up in Heemstede. Her father was a geologist and later director of the Geological Survey, her mother was an adjunct assistant at the Geographical Seminary of the University of Amsterdam until their marriage. Reinhold attended the Stedelijk Gymnasium in Haarlem and received further education at the Institute for Applied Arts Education (1947–1951) in Amsterdam. She initially intended to become an interior designer, but developed into a graphic artist. After her studies, she moved to Paris, where she was taught by graphic artists Jacques Houplain and Stanley William Hayter (of Atelier 17). She bought a printing press, on which she printed her own and other people's work, and during this period she designed posters for Galeries Lafayette.
In the 1950s, Reinhold was one of thirteen painters, together with Karel Appel, Corneille and Constant Nieuwenhuijs, who were approached by Stoomweverij Nijverheid from Enschede to design patterns for fabrics, which were published under the name Famous Artists Series. In 1956 she took part in the exhibition Textiles as Art in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
In the early 1960s, Reinhold moved to New York. She continued to develop as a graphic artist, teaching at the Pratt Graphics Center and, in 1963, a course in graphic techniques at the University of Arkansas. She received awards from the Print Club and the American Color Print Society, both in Philadelphia, and the Society of American Graphic Arts in New York.
In New York, Reinhold met her future husband Edy de Wilde (1919-2005), director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. He became director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 1963, after which they moved to Amsterdam. In 1967, Reinhold showed her graphic work in a solo exhibition at the gallery of Margaretha Sothmann in Amsterdam. Her work was also shown in other exhibitions, including the exhibition series Grafiek Nu (1986, 1988, 1990 and 1992-1993) in Singer Laren. In the early 1980s, she was a lecturer in graphic art at the Royal Academy of Art and Design in 's-Hertogenbosch. In addition to her graphic work, she made photographs and metal reliefs. In 2010, she published a series of photo books with texts by Carel Blotkamp, Remco Campert and Lucebert, among others.
The De Wilde-Reinhold couple collected art, in 1998 their paper collection was housed at the Teylers Museum, with work by Reinhold and artist friends such as Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely. In 2009 Nono Reinhold transferred her archive to the Netherlands Institute for Art History. In 2018-2019 the Teylers Museum hosted the exhibition Paris – New York – Amsterdam: modern masters from the Reinhold De Wilde collection, which also featured work by Reinhold herself. Her work is also included in the collections of the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, among others.