An Encounter With The Work Of Emil Nolde : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture A remarkable retrospective of the German-Danish painter's career is nearing the end of its run at Frankfurt's Städel Museum.

Emil Nolde (1867-1956), the German Expressionist who is the subject of an historic new exhibition of more than 120 artworks at the National Gallery of Ireland, is an easy figure to loathe &ndash ...

But Nolde’s checkered biography has been whitewashed over the decades. Many Germans got to know Nolde as a victim of the Nazis; the exhibition will show that while his art was persecuted, ...

The paradox has long been noted: One of the most prominent modernist artists in Germany, Emil Nolde, was an enthusiastic supporter of Nazism, yet his art was roundly rejected by the Nazis and ...

Nolde, in fact, was an anti-Semite, or at least in the grip of an anti-Semitic world view, long before Hitler took power. As early as 1911 he drew a distinction between “Jews” and “Germans” and ...

Emil Nolde is something of a loner in the history of 20th century European art. Tangentially associated with the German Expressionist group Die Brücke, he backed away from continued involvement.

Nolde’s story shows there were countless shades of grey. As Rainbird says, “It isn’t by any means as black and white as people say.” Even Nazi attitudes to modern art were far from uniform.

The late works of Emil Nolde, one of the leading Expressionists, are being exhibited this year at the Nolde-Museum in North Frisia. His late works have often been neglected in past exhibitions.

Nolde was born Hans Emil Hansen in 1867 in the village of Nolde near Tønder (Northern Schleswig, today part of Denmark). His father was a farmer. As a child, Hans Emil was passionate about ...