Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde
Emil Noldewas a German-Danish painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and is considered to be one of the great oil painting and watercolor painters of the 20th century. He is known for his vigorous brushwork and expressive choice of colors. Golden yellows and deep reds appear frequently in his work, giving a luminous quality to otherwise somber tones. His watercolors include vivid, brooding storm-scapes and brilliant florals...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth7 August 1867
CountryGermany
The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.
Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.
What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.
There cannot be creation without a lot of energy.
Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.