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 ...

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: One of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oil on canvas. (1949). C. 70 x 56.5 cm. Signed lower left and signed and titled “Emil Nolde: Junge Familie” on the reverse on the stretcher. The work is listed as “1949 Young Family” in the artist’s ...

For German Expressionist Emil Nolde, colors had a life of their own: “Weeping and laughing, hot and holy, like love songs and eroticism, like chants and magnificent chorales. Vibrating, they peal like ...

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, fetch high ...

In the 1890s, when Pablo Picasso was a pup, a Schleswig-German artist named Emil Nolde began experimenting. He distorted forms, rearranged figures, changed colors—innovations with which Picasso was ...