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EMIL NOLDE
EMIL NOLDE
EXHIBITION POSTER
13. August 2006 - 31. December 2006

EMIL NOLDE

The Ahlers Pro Arte Foundation exhibits the works of Emil Nolde in the space formerly occupied by the Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover. Prioritising quality over quantity, a selection of seventeen works will be shown, including oil paintings, watercolours and prints.

Emil Nolde’s surname, which he only adopted from 1902 onwards, is a reference to his place of birth, Nolde. His works, which are entirely in colour, pay tribute to his North German roots, as well as to the South Pacific to which he was so attached, travelling there with his wife as part of a 1913–14 scientific expedition.

The exhibition at the Ahlers Pro Arte Foundation is intended to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Nolde’s death . Nolde’s work was repeatedly exhibited by the Kestnergesellschaft during his lifetime, first in Königsstraße in 1918 and again in 1922, 1928 and 1934. After the foundation relocated to Warmbüchenstraße 8 (now 16) in 1948, Nolde’s works were the first to be exhibited in the new space.

Emil Nolde was born in 1867, one year after Kandinsky and two years before Matisse. He was a close friend of them both and knew them well. He died in Seebüll in 1956.

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