German artist (1867–1956)
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A painter who pushed oil and watercolor into raw, color-drunk territory — golden yellows, deep reds, brooding storms — and remained a Nazi Party member even as the regime labeled his own work degenerate.
Born Hans Emil Hansen in 1867, he became Emil Nolde and joined the early Expressionist circle Die Brücke, exploring color with a fervor few oil and watercolor painters of the early 20th century matched. His brushwork was unrestrained, his palette luminous: golden yellows and deep reds gave weight to somber tones, while his watercolors swung between vivid florals and dark storm-scapes, the flower obsession tracing back to an intense preoccupation with van Gogh. In 1937 the Nazi regime he supported — he was a Party member with documented racist and antisemitic views — included his art in the Ent…
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It was in mid-summer [1906]. The colors of the flowers attracted me irresistibly and almost sudden I was painting. My first small gardens paintings were born.
I want so much for my work to grow forth out of the material, just as in nature the plants grow forth out of the earth, which corresponds to their character.
You speak of errors.. .Men who are so correct and flawless are mostly boring; small weaknesses can be loved..
Every true artist creates new values, new beauty..
They [his own fantasies he made in strange pencil drawings then] hover before me now in drifting color, more beautiful than I can possibly paint them..
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