Expressionism
Emil Nolde a German Danish painter, watercolorist and printmaker. His real name is Emil Hansen near the village of Nolde. Born August 7, 1867 in Duchy of Schleswig and passed away April 13, 1956 in Neunkirchen, Nordfiesland, Germany. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brucke; he considered to be one of the great oil painters in the 20th century. He had an independent personality. He took private art lessons after being rejecting by Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Was a supporter of the Nazi party during the 1920s. His work was condemned by Adolf Hitler as degenerate. He was also a honored with the German Order of Merit following World War II. He has three brothers on a farm. Born into a Protestant family. He …show more content…
He joined an expedition to New Guinea (1913-1914) to study the life and art of the aborigines, an experience which served as the source for Oriental and primitive motifs in his paintings, as in South Sea Islander (1914). He was appointed to the Prussian Academy of Art in 1931. But in 1937 his art was declared “degenerate” by the Nazis, and his works were removed from German museums, his work was forbidden to paint in 1941. Small watercolors called “Unpainted Pictures,” made secretly during this time, became known after World War II. When Nolde’s significance was recognized in a number of retrospective exhibitions. Two brief monographs on Nodle were Werner Haftmann, Emil Nodle (1959), and Peter Selz, Emil Nolde (1963). Nolde painted still lives with exotic figures and mask pictures. With lots of study material, which he worked up in numerous works until 1915. His garden in Seebull became an unfailing source of inspiration for his painting, but also coast areas. Nolde spent the years 1939 to 1945 in Seebull painting his ‘unpainted painting’, more than 100 small watercolors, he took on his oil paintings after 1945. His last year, primarily watercolors with flower and landscape motifs from the neighborhood of his house in Seebull, where Nolde died on April13 1956, came