Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Emil Nolde
Born: August 7, 1867
Died: April 13, 1956 (aged 88)
Bio: Emil Nolde was 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.
Known for:
- Candle Dancers (1912)
- Dance Around the Golden Calf (1910)
- Mask Still Life III (1911)
- Figure with flowers (1915)
- The tribute money (1915)