In a faceoff, the Masters trump Picasso Oct 28, 2008
Next door, a fine show of Emil Nolde hardly attracts a soul, sadly. FIAC, the art fair that shared quarters in the Grand Palais these last several days, was populated by shell-shocked dealers murmuring worriedly amongst themselves about the bygone customers whom not so long ago they had blithely turned away or gave five minutes to decide whether to buy a picture. (International Herald Tribune)
At the Grand Palais: Emil Nolde Oct 15, 2008
THE Grand Palais is home to two major exhibitions this winter the painters who influenced Pablo Picasso (see ) and a retrospective of the work of Emil Nolde, one of the finest German Expressionists. The Nolde show is a revelation, even for connoisseurs. (The Economist)
Maid A Mistake Sep 12, 2008
A dozen valuable paintings, including works by Marc Chagall, Diego Rivera and Emil Nolde, were stolen from the San Fernando Valley home of an elderly couple, and police issued an international alert to recover them. Images. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Search on for stolen masterpieces Sep 11, 2008
Paintings by Marc Chagall and Emil Nolde are among the missing items, with one worth as much as $4m (2. 27m). (BBC News -- Americas)
International Alert Issued For Paintings Stolen From Encino Home Sep 10, 2008
The paintings were worth millions of dollars and include rare works by early 20th century artists Emil Nolde and. A $200,000 reward was offered Tuesday for help in recovering the artwork. (NBC4.tv, CA)
Hammershoi's decade of brilliance, before banality set in Aug 15, 2008
In 1900, when Emil Nolde went to see the Danish painter in the apartment that he shared with his wife in a patrician building at Strandgade 30, the German visitor was struck by his retiring manner. "He spoke slowly and softly; we all spoke quietly," Nolde later noted. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Culture shock, German-style Jul 5, 2008
Emil Nolde, who is responsible for the earliest piece in Rex Irwin's survey of German Expressionist prints, was briefly associated with Der Bruecke from 1906-07. His small etching, Lumpen ("villains" or "scoundrels") of 1897-98, is an early, naturalistic portrait of two leering faces. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'So true, so intimate' Jun 28, 2008
When the north German painter Emil Nolde - a wild, loud pictorial radical, much in the manner of Hammersh;i's Norwegian contemporary Edvard Munch - came to visit Strandgade, the Dane "spoke slowly and softly; we all spoke quietly". Yet, in an interview he gave in 1907, this master of demure conservatism seemed happy enough to explain what appealed to him. (Guardian Unlimited)
Auction sales booming Feb 9, 2008
However, three paintings in succession, a van Dongen, a Soutine, and an Emil Nolde, which were O.K. but not particularly good, hit the dust. In the euphoria that prevailed last year, dealers hoping to resell them would have rescued them from failure. (International Herald Tribune)
A stunning gift lights up LACMA Jan 12, 2008
The holdings are so extensive that the greatest-hits installation of prints, drawings and posters by Emil Nolde, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Beckmann and many others constitutes the proverbial iceberg's tip. In the main German Expressionist gallery, announced by a magnificent Schmidt-Rottluff painting of a banshee dance, is the museum's remarkable lineup of four paintings by Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner. (Los Angeles Times)
Cologne Cardinal Apologizes for Using Term Linked to Nazis to Describe Art Sep 19, 2007
The Nazis destroyed canvasses and persecuted artists such as Otto Dix, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde and Max Beckmann. They staged the ``Entartete Kunst'' or ``Degenerate Art'' exhibition in 1937 in Munich, where the work of those artists was hung -- in some cases askance and unframed -- and mocked in slogans scrawled on the walls. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Nazi Art Dealer's Will Disperses Collection of Old Masters, Expressionists Jul 12, 2007
His collection, according to Remy, consists of several 17th-century Dutch still lifes, an Emil Nolde watercolor and other Flemish, Spanish and French paintings. Remy said he is examining 40 works in all, including about 18 that Lohse sold or gave away over the past 25 years. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Picasso Is Among Few Big Sales at Art Cologne as Fair Fatigue Hits Dealers Apr 21, 2007
The decision to move it to the spring was a mistake,'' said Otmar Neher of Essen-based Galerie Neher, which has come to Art Cologne for 25 years and specializes in early 20th-century German artists like Emil Nolde, Max Liebermann and Karl Schmidt- Rottluff. Older collectors have the old date in their heads and people develop certain habits, particularly the Germans. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Vienna Features Cultural Events Apr 10, 2007
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Van Gogh is in the heirs Mar 24, 2007
A 1917 self-portrait by Emil Nolde shows the artist wearing headgear very much like Van Gogh's in the "Self-Portrait with Straw Hat" of 20 years before. Like Van Gogh, Nolde turns his face into an oblique three-quarter view, lets the hat shade one cheek and sets his mouth, rimmed with reddish facial hair, into a somber pout. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Lothar-Genther Buchheim; wrote 'Das Boot' Feb 24, 2007
Governor Edmund Stoiber of Bavaria praised Mr. Buchheim for his contribution to the southern German state, including the museum that houses his collection of art from the Bruecke group of expressionists, including works by Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, and Otto Mueller. The Buchheim Museum also houses sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and glass from Asia, South America, and Europe and folk art from Africa and the Pacific. (Boston Globe)
'Das Boot' author, ex-submariner Buchheim dies at 89 Feb 24, 2007
Bavarian Gov. Edmund Stoiber praised Buchheim for his contribution to the southern German state, including the museum that houses his collection of art from the Bruecke group of expressionists, including works by Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein and Otto Mueller. advertisement. (MSNBC -- International)
'Das Boot' author dies Feb 24, 2007
Bavarian Gov. Edmund Stoiber praised Buchheim for his contribution to the southern German state, including the museum that houses his collection of art from the Bruecke group of expressionists, including works by Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein and Otto Mueller. The Buchheim Museum also houses sculpture, ceramics, textiles and glass from Asia, South America and Europe and folk art from Africa and the Pacific. (USA Today -- Life)
A new trend at Impressionist and Modern art auctions Feb 10, 2007
Two lots down, a seascape in the idiosyncratic figural style that Emil Nolde cultivated in the 1930s soared to 960,000. The picture is admirable, but a decade ago it would have been felt to be retardataire it sends back echoes of Courbet's manner a century earlier. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Streisand, others on LACMA board Feb 9, 2007
Streisand, a supporter of humanitarian and environmental causes and a funder of the Clinton Climate Change Initiative, collected German Expressionist art by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Emil Nolde as a young art enthusiast, the museum said. More recently, she has acquired works by John Singer Sargent, Robert Henri, William McGregor Paxton and others. (Los Angeles Times)
Sotheby's Raises $186 Million in London Sale of Impressionist, Modern Art Feb 6, 2007
5 million pounds, and a guarantee from Sotheby's of a minimum price to the seller; two Egon Schiele works; three Emil Nolde paintings; two Pierre Bonnard pictures; landscapes by Claude Monet and Eugene Boudin, and an Edgar Degas dancer. Sculptures were snapped up. (Bloomberg -- UK)
