The German media was abuzz last week when news broke that Chancellor Angela Merkel had decided to remove two paintings by Emil Nolde, the renowned German expressionist, from the walls of her office.

The Expressionist Emil Nolde (1867–1956) is arguably the most famous “degenerate artist”. No other artist had as many works confiscated, nor were their works as prominently displayed in the early ...

People gather around the paintings ' Paradise Lost', right, and ' The Sinner', left, of Emil Nolde, during the press preview of an exhibition about the artist at the Hamburger Bahnhof museum in Berlin ...

Two art exhibitions currently running in Berlin raise important questions about the relationship of certain modern artists to the Hitler regime in Germany. The Hamburger Bahnhof contemporary art ...

The works of Emil Nolde at the Museum of Fine Arts An expansive collection of watercolors, prints, and paintings, the Emil Nolde show at the MFA revealed the works of one of Germany’s most talented ...

“Every colour harbours its own soul,” he wrote, "delighting or disgusting or stimulating me.” For Nolde, it was the means by which the essence of a person or composition could be drawn out, the the ...

Brazilian photographer Vik Muniz is well-known for his innovative representations of famous artworks, landmarks, and people with the use of unexpected materials. "Sunflowers, after Emil Nolde" is part ...

Emil Nolde was a Nazi and so what asks contemporary German artist Daniel Richter Its a moralistic debate A debate that mirrors the moralism and bigottery of a generation that seems to think that the ...