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Emil Nolde ranks among the most well-known artists of the 20th century. He is also one of the most important proponents of Expressionism. His art is distinguished by an unparalleled intensity of color. Like many of his contemporaries in the early 20th century, he sought a new pictorial language that broke from naturalistic representation. In order to transcend European academic art, which was grounded in classicism, he explored the grotesque, the fantastic and what was for him the exotic. With some 150 works, the exhibition in the Zentrum Paul Klee examines this confrontation in the work of Emil Nolde and deals for the first time with the hitherto relatively unexamined artistic friendship between Nolde and Klee.

Maria-Teresa Cano 
Head of Communication and Public Relations, Kunstmuseum Bern–Zentrum Paul Klee 
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