The German media was abuzz last week when news broke that Chancellor Angela Merkel had decided to remove two paintings by Emil Nolde, the renowned German expressionist, from the walls of her office.
BERLIN, Germany (AP) — A Berlin museum has opened an exhibition based on years of research into expressionist painter Emil Nolde that chips away at the remnants of his image as a victim of the Nazi ...
I visited the Emil Nolde (1867-1956) exhibition now up at Frankfurt's Städel Museum this past week. Nolde's paintings are small, sketch-like, personal, and serious. They are authentic: one person ...
Emil Nolde has long been one of the most popular German Modernists, loved especially for his Expressionist landscapes and flowers. His biography, however, has undergone much whitewashing over decades, ...
He abandoned his family's farm, but became world-famous for landscape paintings. Expressionist Emil Nolde, born 150 years ago, saw the world in abstract but radical colors - a vision that proved too ...
Life of Christ (1911–12), by Emil Nolde at the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition in Berlin, 1938. ( Zentralarchiv der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin) The paradox has long been noted: One of ...
In the National Gallery of Ireland, in the historic heart of Dublin, there’s a beautiful painting that encapsulates one of the burning issues of our age: how should we react when bad people make great ...
The renowned painter Emil Nolde denied his Nazism by the end of the war. But a new exhibition reveals the extent of his anti-Semitism, and has challenged his artistic legacy in Germany. By Brendan ...
A remarkable retrospective of the German-Danish painter's career is nearing the end of its run at Frankfurt's Städel Museum. Commentator Alva... I visited the Emil Nolde (1867-1956) exhibition now up ...
Emil Nolde has long been one of the most popular German Modernists, loved especially for his Expressionist landscapes and flowers. His biography, however, has undergone much whitewashing over decades, ...