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Nolde Exhibition - which for many was a revelation - was all somehow a little settled, and I would like to revert to the artist (in particular, because I now want to collect the names of all the artists whose works were exhibited Hp Vystaavke degenerative art).

So, with your pozvolniya, I will post here a compilation of several of his works, brief biography, a translation of a letter and a few quotes from his autobiography (I think it's very interesting to compare them with the letter de Stael).

Emil Nolde

1867-1884: Emil Hansen was born on August 7, 1867 to a peasant family in the German village of Nolde, located near the Danish border. In 1902, after his marriage, he took the surname name of this village.

1884-1891: uchitlsya on cabinetmaker and sculptor. After graduation he worked in Munich, then in Karlsruhe, where he attended a school of applied arts, and in Berlin.

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1892-1897: taught drawing, decorative arts and art in Switzerland.

Nolde began to write - the alpine scenery of the mountains small size. Their publication in the journal Jugend was a great success. The sale of these works allowed him to give up teaching and become an independent artist.

1895-1896: continuous work on the first oil painting, "Mountain Giants, who have failed the annual international exhibition in Munich.

1900-1901: the fall of 1900 took lessons at the Academy Julian, studying painting of old masters in the Louvre. In Copenhagen, Nolde is written in the Christian school Tsartmana, one of the most courageous Scandinavian colorists of his generation. Meeting with the Danish actress Ada Vilstrup.

1902: marriage with Ada Vilstrup. Her illness.

1904: Church Olstrupa ordered him altar polyptych. Financial difficulties. Trip to Italy. The first printed schedule (a series of "Fantasy").

1906-1907: Period of cooperation with the group "Most", founded in 1905. Members of this group, which impressed "riot of color" Nolde, offered him vstepit group. He received ststus "active member".
Maps Ernst, founder of the Museum Folkwang, one of the most otkytyh to the new art, bought several works Nolde. Thanks Nolde, Ernst interest group "Most"

Winter 1906-1907: the beginning of the differences between the couple, Nolde and other members of the group "Most". Nolde accuses them of incompetence in financial management and lack of participation in the international demonstrations.

21 March-9 April 1907: visit to Dresden. In his autobiography, mentions visiting Nolde "Hekelya, Kirnera, Pechstein - young people with fresh vzglyadom the world, full of enthusiasm and vitality. Hekel terribly inspired all around him, Kirchner almost raskzyval mouth, Pechstein infectious laugh ... »(Mein Leben).

November 1907: Nolde Hekelyu sent the letter, which was the treasurer and administrator of "Bridge", with notification of its withdrawal from the group. Paintings and drawings Nolde exhibited in 24 different locations.

December 1907: meeting with Edvard Munch.

Beginning 1908: Nolde was elected a full member of beroinskogo Secession (since 1905 he had a status of "guest").

March 1908? Experimenting with watercolor. Developing technology, close to Tachisme.

Beginning 1909: Attempts to resist Nolde Secession, too dependent, according to him, from the previous generation of artists, particularly from Lieberman. The desire to establish an international association of artists called moles «Die Zeitgenosen» ( «Contemporaries"). In a letter Munch, whom he mentors others in the new association, he lists the names Hofer, Beckman, Rohlfs, Schmidt-Rottluffa, Matisse, Le Puy, the Swedish artist Gustav Vigeland, Karl Mill, Axel Tornemana. Munch did not respond to this letter, project remained unrealized.

Summer 1909: Nolde nearly died from poisoning non-potable water. In the village Ruttebyul "in a state of ecstasy", he wrote a series of paintings on religious subjects: "The Last Supper", "Pentecost", "Crucifixion".
Nolde sought as it may more accurately portray the ethnic type characters in these works.

Winter 1909-10: Acquisition of a workshop in Berlin. Visit Von Genig and Beckman, who reacted to the arrogance of the works of Nolde.

May 1910: formation of the "New Secession", which included 20 artists, not taken Sets3ession. Nolde informed of this obrazschovanii, but do not take part in it.

October-November 1910: Second exhibition of the New Secession involving Nolde. Two of his works, including "Pentecost", as well as members of the "bridge" rejected by the jury of the Berlin Secession. Nolde said that Lieberman has threatened to withdraw from the Secession, if the work Nolde will be taken.

December 8, 1910: Lieberman organized discussion of the problems associated with Nolde, kotoryts present at this discussion, but has not commented.

December 10, 1910: Nolde Lieberman sent an insulting letter, a copy of which he sent to the journal «Kunst und Künstler» ( «Art and Artists").

December 17, 1910: an extraordinary collection of Secession, whose members voted to expel Nolde (40 votes in favor, 2 against, 3 vrzderzhavshihsya).

Winter 1910-1911: Ada and Emil Nolde are immersed in the nightlife of Berlin. The ratio of the artist to the city is twofold: it is for him - "the great whore", a symbol of lust and loss of identity, but at the same time - "phenomenally stimulating city."

April 1911: Visit to Brussels. Nolde experiencing shock, not found in the Brussels museum works of James Ensor. Introducing Ensor. A trip to Amsterdam, the admiration of "Night dozolrom" by Rembrandt, Hals and Van Gogh.

November 1911: assiduous seen Ethnological Museum in Berlin. Sketches of masks in Oceania, Africa and prekolumbiyskoy America.

December 5, 1911: the collapse of the New Secession by the departure Pechstein, but for him and all members of the "Bridge".

January - February 1912: the end devyatichastnogo polyptych "Life of Christ", exhibited in the Museum Folkwang in Hagen. This polyptych was rejected by the jury of the exhibition of contemporary religious art in Brussels and the exhibition in Cologne.

July - August 1913: buy a small farm in Utenvarfe near Zeebyullya.

Fall 1913: Public invited Nolde colonial administration to participate in the expedition to New Guinea. "The purpose of this expedition was to study the sanitary conditions in the German colonies. And in particular, to establish the causes of lower fertility rates among indigenous people. The purpose of his participation - the study of pristine nature and people belonging to different uivilizatsiyam.

March 25, 1914: Nolde directs the Office of the colonies official letter, in which protests against the organized theft hudozhestvenny and cultural values of the colonized territories.

1917: Nolde destroyed 15 entries. Under the influence of Van Gogh wrote "Self-Portrait in a straw hat."

1918: Exhibition in Hanover, Munich, Germany. Nolde relinquished his professorship at the Academy of Karlsruhe.

1920: inauguration of the hall Nolde in the National Gallery in Berlin.

Winter 1933: Kandinsky, Nolde came to visit.

May 15, 1933: President of the Prussian Academy of Max von Schilling, demanding the resignation of Nolde. Refusal Nolde.

Summer 1933: League of National Socialist Students Nolde appointed by the President of the Association of schools of fine arts.

April 8, 1934: Ada and Emil Nolde drawn up a will in which he left his estate in the region Zeebyulle Tonderna to improve relations between residents on both sides of the border.

September 15, 1934: Nolde joined the "National-Socialist Cooperative North Schleswig, which a year later merged with the National-Socialist Party of North Schleswig.

May 1935: in the Kunsthalle in Hamburg works Nolde had a full room. However, some work, including "The Entombment", had to withdraw.

December 1935: at Nolde diagnosed with cancer of the stomach. The operation in Hamburg.

1936: The postoperative period in Switzerland. Vizmit to Klee.

February 7, 1937: Hamburg Court is investigating the entry Nolde in the National-Socialist Cooperative North Schleswig. Zaklyubchenie Court - Nolde did not enter into it.

Summer 1937: the Nazi campaign against the "degenerative art". During the exhibition in Munich, which opened July 20, Katrina Nolde are the subject of ridicule. From German museums were confiscated in 1052 Nolde works - a record, no one had been confiscated so much work!

July 2, 1938: Nolde wrote Goebbels statement demanding the return of his works, which belong to him, but were in temporary storage in museums. He received no answer, but required the paintings were returned to him.

March 20, 1939: among the 5000 works of art, burned by the Nazis in Berlin, there were numerous works by Nolde.

May 1939: first visit to the studio Nolde couple, Sprengel, wealthy industrialists and art lovers who supported Nolde during the war, supplying its materials and products, as well as hiding it in his paintings that the Nazis wanted to confiscate. Nolde forbidden to paint.

August 23, 1941: The Gestapo was ordered to check whether Nolde obeyed the prohibition to paint. Nolde wrote at the time of the very small size, which was easier to hide in case of a search ( "unwritten image").

May 1942-1945: Nolde uninterruptedly eivet in Zeebyulle.

November 7, 1946: death of Ada Nolde.

1953: Nolde was awarded the Medal of Merit in the field of science and the arts.

April 13, 1956: the death of Emil Nolde in Zeebyulle. Foundation fund Ada and Emil Nolde.