Bard College Berlin Art Historian Aya Soika’s Groundbreaking Research Exposes Emil Nolde’s Nazi Ties
Emil Nolde’s Blumengarten (Thersens Haus) (1915). This and Brecher were the two paintings that hung in Angela Merkel’s office.
The exhibition catalogue Emil Nolde: The Artist during the Third Reich, by Soika and the Cambridge historian Bernhard Fulda, provides a new historical narrative for an artist who fashioned himself a martyr of the Nazi regime—a narrative that has had political reverberations for the current German government.
Post Date: 11-30-2019
Post Date: 11-30-2019