Emil Nolde (1867-1956)

Emil Nolde was a German Expressionist painter and graphic artist. He was trained as a woodcarver, then studied painting at the Academie Julian in Paris and then under Adolf Hölzel, from whom he learned the expressive potential of color. He was a deeply religious man, and his aim was to express his religious feeling through color, using violent color clashes and grotesque distortions. A mystic pantheism also pervades his landscapes, still-lifes, and mask-like figures. Although briefly a member of the Die Brucke, he was essentially a solitary figure among the Expressionists. His interest in tribal art was further stimulated by an expedition to New Guinea via Russia and China in 1913-14. Declared a degenerate by the Nazis and forbidden to paint, he painted in secret—small watercolors known as the "unpainted pictures." Nolde died in 1956 in Seebüll, Germany. 

DMA unpublished material.

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