Emil Nolde

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Emil Nolde was a pioneering German-Danish painter and printmaker renowned for his intensely colored, emotionally charged works that helped define early 20th-century Expressionism.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Expressionist artist
human
painter
printmaker
artworksConfiscatedBy Nazi Germany
surface form: Nazi regime
birthName Emil Hansen
citizenship German Empire
Germany
countryOfBirth Denmark
Germany
countryOfDeath West Germany
dateOfBirth 1867-08-07
dateOfDeath 1956-04-13
education Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
surface form: School of Applied Arts in Karlsruhe

studies in Paris
ethnicOrigin Danish
field painting
printmaking
genre flower painting
landscape painting
portrait painting
religious painting
influenced later German Expressionists
modern religious painters
influencedBy Edvard Munch
Symbolism
Vincent van Gogh
knownFor contribution to early 20th-century Expressionism
emotionally charged works
intensely colored paintings
memberOf Berlin Secession
Die Brücke
movement Expressionism
Expressionism
surface form: German Expressionism
name Emil Nolde self-link
notableWork Dance Around the Golden Calf (1910)
Sea and Sun (1910)
The Last Supper (1909)
The Prophet (1912 woodcut)
Unpainted Pictures series
numberOfWorksConfiscated over 1000
occupation farmer (early life)
placeOfBirth Duchy of Schleswig
Pinneberg
surface form: Nolde, Schleswig
placeOfDeath Seebüll, Schleswig-Holstein
residence Berlin
Seebüll, Schleswig-Holstein
spouse Ada Vilstrup
subjectOf Nolde Museum Seebüll
technique etching
oil painting
watercolor
woodcut
wasLabeledAs degenerate artist by the Nazi regime
workCharacterizedBy dramatic emotional intensity
expressive brushwork
religious mysticism
vivid color contrasts

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Erich Heckel influenced Emil Nolde
Die Brücke member Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde name Emil Nolde self-link
Expressionism notableProponent Emil Nolde