Tag: Emil Nolde

Disappearing palaces, tempestuous landscapes and lemon squeezers

Feb 18, 2015

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fellpainter

in Berlin, paintings, plein air

It might be cold outside but there has been a simmering of wild colours and stormy brushstrokes within. More late birthday gifts arrived in the form of two new catalogues of Christopher Lehmpfuhl’s bold and dazzling work and a small but sumptuous book filled with Emil Nolde watercolour landscapes. Both German painters, but separated by…
Nolde is more than of the earth

Jan 14, 2015

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fellpainter

in paintings, thoughts about painting

Emil Nolde is an odd one. He is grouped with the Expressionists but he seems to do his own thing, not quite fitting in with the rest of them. There isn’t anyone who paints like Nolde, or has ever done, in watercolour or oil.