“How glad I am to be almost alone as an artist among artists, with the whole swarm of artists somewhere else.”

—  Emil Nolde

note of 13 March 1947; as quoted in Expressionism, a German intuition, 1905-1920, Neugroschel, Joachim; Vogt, Paul; Keller, Horst; Urban, Martin; Dube, Wolf Dieter; (transl. Joachim Neugroschel); publisher: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1980, p. 32
1921 - 1956

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