Artnet news: Emil Nolde. A German Legend. The Artist during the Nazi Regime
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Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and was one of the first oil painting and watercolor painters of the early 20th century to explore color. He is known for his brushwork and expressive choice of colors. Golden yellows and deep reds appear frequently in his work, giving a luminous quality to otherwise somber tones. His wa…
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culture · German painter · painter · lithographer · printmaker · photographer · graphic artist · xylographer · sculptor · architectural drafter · draftsperson · also Emil Nolde, Emile Nolde, Emil Hansen, Emile Hansen, Nolde, e. nolde
Born 7 August 1867 · Died 13 April 1956 · Q152788
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2019· 3 entries
Artnet: Angela Merkel Purges Artworks by Emil Nolde From Her Office as a New Exhibition Explores His Nazi Past
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The Art Newspaper: New Berlin exhibition exposes Emil Nolde’s Nazi ties
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The city of Düsseldorf agreed to restitute Nolde's The Actress to the heirs of Curt Schueler
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2017· 1 entry
The Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Foundation restituted the painting “Women in a Flower Garden” by Emil Nolde to the heirs of Eduard Müller who was murdered in a Nazi concentration camp in 1942
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2015· 1 entry
Nolde's Maiwiese (Maienwiese) [Meadow in May], 1915, (Inv
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2007· 1 entry
That the museum must settle with the heirs
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2000· 1 entry
The Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Foundation, Duisburg rejected a restitution request from the family of the Breslau (Wroclaw) collector Dr
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1956· 3 entries
Died 1956-04-13.
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“..colors are my notes for fashioning sounds and chords with and against one another.”
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“How glad I am to be almost alone as an artist among artists, with the whole swarm of artists somewhere else.”
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1952· 1 entry
Awarded Culture and Science Award of the City of Kiel (1952).
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1909· 2 entries
“If I were tied to the letter of the Scriptures and rigid dogma, I believe I could not have painted these profoundly felt paintings about the Eucharist and the 'Pentecost' [religious paintings, he made c. 1909-11) I had to be artistically free - not have God before me. like a steely Assyrian ruler, but God in me, hot and holy like Christ's love.”
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After drinking poisoned water at the age of 42
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1902· 1 entry
Married Danish actress Ada Vilstrup (1879–1946) and moved to Berlin, where he would meet collector Gustav Schiefler and artist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, both of whom would advocate his work later in life
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1898· 1 entry
Spent the next three years taking private painting classes, visiting Paris, and becoming familiar with the contemporary impressionist scene that was popular at this time
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1890· 1 entry
Studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe (1889–1890).
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1889· 1 entry
Gained entrance into the School of Applied Arts in Karlsruhe
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-08-07.
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