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Emil Nolde Emil Nolde was born August 7th, 1867. He was a German painter and printmaker, and was one of the first Expressionists, a movement involving the distortion of landscapes to portray moods, emotions, and ideas. He studied to become a woodcarver and illustrator in his 20s, later being rejected from the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 1898. While he was indeed a supporter of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, sharing anti-semitic opinions, Hitler rejected all forms of modern art,