In the popular novel The German Lesson, a character based on Nolde falls victim to Nazi policies on “degenerate art”. Recent ...

BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said last week that she would be taking down two oil paintings by Emil Nolde, an Expressionist whose work she greatly admires, from the walls of her ...

Adolf Hitler, the failed artist, appears to be taking his revenge on Emil Nolde, the successful artist he envied and hated. Just as Hitler watercolors, even those demonstrated to be fake ...

The renowned painter Emil Nolde denied his Nazism by the end of the war. But a new exhibition reveals the extent of his anti-Semitism, and has challenged his artistic legacy in Germany. By Brendan ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Thomas Gibson Fine Art is sticking its neck out with a solo booth of the early German-Danish expressionist ...

Life of Christ (1911–12), by Emil Nolde at the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition in Berlin, 1938. ( Zentralarchiv der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin) The paradox has long been noted ...

Two Women in the Garden was painted in 1915 by the German artist Emil Nolde. By modern standards it’s not remotely controversial: two grown women, both fully clothed, standing in a sea of flowers.

86.2 x 100.2 cm. (33.9 x 39.4 in.) Celle 1946 (Schloss), Befreite Kunst, cat. no. 89; Hamburg 1947 (Kunstverein), Emil Nolde; Munich 1949 (Central Art Collecting Point), Kunstschaffen in Deutschland, ...