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Nolde, Emil: Cows in the Lowland Emil Nolde: Dance Around the Golden Calf
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Also Known As Emil Hansen
Born August 7, 1867 • Germany
Died April 15, 1956 (aged 88) • Germany
Movement / Style Expressionism • Die Brücke

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Nolde, Emil: Cows in the Lowland
Emil Nolde: Dance Around the Golden Calf
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
Munch, Edvard
Edvard Munch
Norwegian artist
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
Heckel, Erich: Portrait of a Man
Erich Heckel
German artist
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff: Self-Portrait with Monocle
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
German artist
Georges Rouault
French artist
Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
“Battle of Alexander at Issus,” detail of an oil painting on panel by Albrecht Altdorfer, 1529; in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Albrecht Altdorfer
German artist
Erfurth, Hugo: Käthe Kollwitz
Käthe Kollwitz
German artist
George Grosz.
George Grosz
German artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Jacques Villon
French painter
Childe Hassam: Winter in Union Square
Childe Hassam
American painter
Zorn, Anders: Dagmar
Anders Zorn
Swedish painter and etcher
Lucas Cranach, the Elder
German painter
Adam Elsheimer
German artist
Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler
German artist
Pechstein, Max: Sunlight
Max Pechstein
German artist
“Parents of the Artist,” oil on canvas by Otto Dix, 1921; in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switzerland
Otto Dix
German artist
Self-portrait, oil painting by Otto Müller, 1922; in the Klaus Gebhard Collection, Munich
Otto Müller
German painter

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