Sunday, 9 February 2025

The controversial figure of Emil Nolde (1867-1956)

Emil Nolde was a German Expressionist painter, anti-semite and member of the Nazi Party, despite his work and the movement he was a member of being labeled as 'degenerate art' and rejected and condemned by the regime. Yet, I find his paintings interesting and haunting - stimulates the ongoing question of how we consume art by 'bad people'. I learned about Nolde's work in Christian Kracht's novel Eurotrash

For now, some paintings by Nolde:







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