Emil Nolde was a famous German painter, watercolorist, and printmaker associated with Die Brücke (The Bridge) group and the Expressionist art movement. He is best known for his expressive landscapes, flowers, figures and religious paintings. Famous Emil Nolde artworks include “Sunflowers”, “The Last Supper”, “Dance Around the Golden Calf”, “Mask Still Life III”, “Stormy Sea”, “Blumengarten (ohne Figur)”, “Wildly Dancing Children”, “The Burial (Die Grablegung)”, “Gustav Schiefler”, “Large Poppies”, “The Tribute Money” and “Summer Clouds”.
Mini biography: Born Hans Emil Hansen on the 7th of August, 1867 in Nolde, Province of Schleswig-Holstein, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany (now part of Denmark). Nolde married Ada Vilstrup in 1902 until 1946. The artist died on the 13th of April, 1956 in Seebüll, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany at the age of 88.
List of Famous Emil Nolde Art Quotes
Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them. Emil Nolde
There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every color holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colors are colors, tones tones…and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed. Emil Nolde
Dualism is particularly important in both my paintings and my graphics. Emil Nolde
Not long ago only a few artistic periods were thought suitable for museums. Then they were joined by exhibitions of Coptic and early Christian art, Greek terracotta’s and vases, Persian and Islamic art. But why is Indian, Chinese and Javanese art still classified under ethnology or anthropology? And why is the art of primitive peoples not considered art at all? Emil Nolde
How glad I am to be almost alone as an artist among artists, with the whole swarm of artists somewhere else. Emil Nolde
When you notice anarchy, recklessness, or licentiousness in works of contemporary art, when you notice crass coarseness and brutality, then occupy yourself long and painstakingly precisely with these works, and you will suddenly recognize how the seeming recklessness transforms itself into freedom, the coarseness into high refinements. Harmless pictures are seldom worth anything. Emil Nolde
We do not care for Raphael, and are less enthusiastic about the statues of the so-called golden age of Greece. Our predecessors’ ideals are not ours. Works signed by great names over the centuries appeal to us less. In the hurry and bustle of their times, worldly-wise artists created works for Popes and palaces. It is the ordinary people who labored in their workshops and of whose lives scarcely anything is now known, whose very names have not come down to us, that we love and respect today in their plain, large-scale carvings in the cathedrals of Naumburg, Magdeburg and Bamberg. Emil Nolde
In our own time, every earthenware vessel or piece of jewelry, every utensil or garment, has to be designed on paper before it is made. Primitive peoples, however, create their works with the material itself in the artist’s hand, held in his fingers. They aspire to express delight in form and the love of creating it. Absolute originality, the intense and often grotesque expression of power and life in very simple forms – that may be why we like these works of native art. Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde Self-Portrait Painting
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