At the Emil Nolde Museum
Emil Nolde, who spent a lot of his time painting almost daily sunsets or his own garden rather badly than well, and who even made it into the German Chancellery with his choice of motifs, something that not every German painter can claim for himself, Emil Nolde, the expressionist German painter of flowers in his own garden, but also of landscapes with sunsets, is, I think, still today a very good example of someone who enthusiastically wanted to get together with the eternally cheeky, stupid German criminals and villains and get drunk and suppress others in the collective intoxication of power, but who completely overlooked the fact that in the vast majority of cases stupid German criminals are also often simply stupid German villains.
And so Nolde-Emil also ended up in the box with the other ‘degenerates’…
In any case, Christies writes the following on the subject:
“The most expensive work by Emil Nolde in our database was auctioned at Christie’s auction house on 06.10.2020 for $7,344,500. The distribution of prices shows that most works are in the price segment between $100,000 and $500,000”
But whether the Nolde emil fetches 100,000 these days because of his enthusiastic longing to hang out with the crooks and tell anti-Semitic jokes and let the Führer be a good man, or because (afterwards) he then hyped himself up as a poor victim of the evil Nazis,
well, we don’t really know…
The most likely scenario is that the buyers of the colourful flowers or the sunsets with landscapes or the Vikings and the other grimaces
might not be that interested in the end…
The pure, superficial and hollow view of the garden or of the sunset over the German landscape, so completely beyond mass murder, Auschwitz and Stalingrad – perhaps this is precisely
expression of the actual cultural demand of the German bourgeoisie, or the bourgeois German “king”.
bourgeois German “king” or the civil servant “customer”, who is fascinated by crime, but who, sitting in his or her own garden, doesn’t really want to have that much to do with all the rest…
In this sense, let’s just hope that today’s fellow travellers won’t get it themselves one day – just like Emil, who basically just wanted to paint some flowers and landscapes and sunsets and, together with the other little men, only wanted to take part in a little Jew- and subhuman-bashing…
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