Emil Nolde

A group of some 500 works of art (oil paintings, watercolours, and prints) represent Emil Nolde in the Sprengel Museum Hannover’s permanent collection. His oeuvre is both one of the most numerous and a guiding figure in the museum’s programme. As newly-weds, Margrit and Bernhard Sprengel started collecting art with the purchase of watercolours by Emil Nolde. This collection developed into a considerable grouping of classics of the Modern era. After visiting the “Entartete Kunst“ ("Degenerate Art") show in Munich in 1937, where they viewed Nolde’s “Herbstmeer“ ("Autumn Sea") from 1910, the Sprengels were so enthusiastic about what they had seen that they decided to focus their collecting energies on the art the Nazis prohibited to make sure that future generations would also be able to see these works of art.

 

 

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