Editing Emil Nolde (section)

==Career==
As a child, he had loved to paint and draw; however, he was already 31 by the time he pursued this new career. When he was rejected by the [[Munich Academy of Fine Arts]] in 1898, he spent the next three years taking private painting classes, visiting Paris, and becoming familiar with the contemporary impressionist scene that was popular at this time. He married Danish actress Ada Vilstrup in 1902, and moved to Berlin, where he would meet collector Gustav Schiefler and artist [[Karl Schmidt-Rottluff]], both of whom would advocate his work later in life. From that year, he named himself after his birthplace.

He became a member of the revolutionary expressionist group [[Die Brücke]] (The Bridge), of [[Dresden]], in 1906, upon the group's invitation. This association lasted only until the end of the following year.<ref name="NDB">Reuther, Manfred, "[https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd118588494.html#ndbcontent Nolde, Emil]"{{in lang|de}}. In: ''Neue Deutsche Biographie'' 19 (1999), p. 328-330 [online version].</ref> He was a member of the [[Berlin Secession]] from 1908 to 1910, but was then excluded owing to a disagreement with the leadership.<ref name="NDB"/> In Berlin, Nolde was strongly influenced by the collections of the [[Ethnological Museum of Berlin|Völkerkundemuseum]] in what was then Königgrätzer Straße, which he visited repeatedly and where he made over 120 drawings of exhibits from the Global South. His studies resulted in works such as ''Man, Woman and Cat'' (1912), in which Nolde depicted [[Ibrahim Njoya|King Njoya]]'s throne “Mandu Yenu”, which came to Germany from Cameroon under controversial circumstances, only slightly altered.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Meyer |first=Andrea |title=Nicht wiederzuerkennen. Kulturgüter aus Kamerun in der deutschen Bildproduktion. In: Atlas der Abwesenheit: Kameruns Kulturerbe in Deutschland |date=2023 |publisher=Reimer Verlag |isbn=978-3-496-01700-4 |location=Heidelberg |pages=201–203 |language=de |trans-title=Unrecognizable. Cultural assets from Cameroon in German image production. In: Atlas of Absence: Cameroon's Cultural Heritage in Germany}}</ref> He exhibited with [[Wassily Kandinsky]]'s Munich-based group [[Der Blaue Reiter]] (The Blue Rider) in 1912; by this time he had achieved some fame, and was able to support himself through his art.<ref>Peters, Olaf. "Emil Nolde". In: Renee Price (Ed.), ''New Worlds: German and Austrian Art, 1890–1940''. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. {{ISBN|978-0-300-09446-6}}.{{page needed|date=September 2016}}</ref>