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Biography
Emil Nolde (1867-1956) was the son of a peasant family living in the coastal Schleswig area of Germany (near the Danish border). He trained as a woodcarver and at age 21 moved to Munich to work carving ornamental furniture moldings. He taught crafts for six years at the Museum of Industry and Trade in St. Gallen, Switzerland, where he began to paint in a conservative style. He began to study art full time in 1898, at age 31, which took him back to Munich and briefly to Paris and Copenhagen, where he discovered the art of Vincent Van Gogh. In 1906 his evolving expressionist style of painting earned him membership in Die Brücke in Dresden and later the "New Secession" in Berlin, but his aloof and irritable personality caused a break with both groups within a year or two. He withdrew to Schleswig during 1909-12 to paint religious themes and the life of Christ, pictures that were rejected in Berlin and Brussels.
He then traveled extensively within Germany, and went abroad with a colonial ethnographic expedition through Russia and the Far East to New Guinea (1913-14), which introduced him to "primitive" art, followed by a trip to Italy and Spain, where he saw many works by the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya. However, these many art influences left little trace in his painting; he had already settled into brutally crude drawing charged with intense color, style features that remained unchanged for the rest of his life. He was also working as frequently in watercolors as in oils. He returned to the Schleswig area in 1921, then moved permanently to an isolated farm near Seebüll in 1926; here he remained for most of the rest of his life, living with his wife almost as a hermit (with occasional visits to an apartment he kept in Berlin), and painting continually in landscapes, seascapes, animal studies and botanicals. (continued on the bottom)
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Toward the end of the 1930's his productivity began to decline, as his reception continued to be unfavorable. A deeply religious man, Nolde became an ardent member of the Nazi Party after the National Socialists came to power in 1934, only to witness his paintings labeled "degenerate art" (entartete Kunst) in the infamous 1937 exhibition of seized German museum holdings, and in 1941 he was forbidden by the Third Reich from pursuing any fine arts activities. He responded by retiring to his farm, working secretively in a small, half concealed room to paint over 1300 small studies — his "unpainted paintings." These were often less than 25x15cm in size, and were painted entirely with watercolors and ink, which were compact and could be easily hidden if necessary. Some of these were translated into oil paintings in the decade between the end of World War II and Nolde's death at age 89.