Editing Emil Nolde (section)

==Post war==
After [[World War II]], Nolde was once again honoured, receiving the [[Pour le Mérite]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bestarts.org/artist/emil-nolde/ |title=Emile Nolde }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Orden Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste |date=1978 |title=Die Mitglieder des Ordens. 2 1882–1952. |url=http://www.orden-pourlemerite.de/plm/mgvita/nolde1867_vita.pdf |location=Berlin |publisher=Gebr. Mann Verlag |page=398 |language=de |isbn=3-7861-1125-1}}</ref>

While acknowledging his success as a brilliant colourist, greater awareness of Nolde's commitment to Nazism and a discussion of the relationship between his politics, denunciation of non-Jewish adversaries as Jews, and his art is considered in more recent scholarship.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Fulda|first1=Bernhard|title=The Artist during the Third Reich|last2=Soika|first2=Aya|last3=Ring|first3=Christian|publisher=Prestel|year=2019|isbn=978-3-79135-894-9}}</ref> A recent exhibition (''Emile Nolde: A German Legend, The Artist during the Nazi Regime,'' Berlin National Gallery, 2019) examined Nolde's self-professed Nazi leanings, and the tendency of postwar art historians to downplay them.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Tooze|first=Adam|date=2019-11-25|title=To the Bitter End|language=en|volume=41|work=London Review of Books|issue=23|url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n23/adam-tooze/to-the-bitter-end|access-date=2021-09-06|issn=0260-9592}}</ref>