Franz Nolken - Artist Info

About Franz Nolken

  • Biography

    Franz Nolken is one the most important artist's of early modernism in Hamburg and of international importance. He was the pupil of A. Siebelist since 1900. In 1904 he joined the Hamburgische Künstlerschaft and in 1907 he became a member of the 'Brücke' on recommendation of K. Schmidt-Rottluff.

    After exhibiting with the Brücke artists in Dresden in 1909 he went to Paris accompanied by F. Ahlers-Hestermann and W. Rosam to study in the studio of H. Matisse. The collectors E. Rump as well as the owner of Beierdsorf, O. Troplowitz were among his promoters. Nolken's many-sided pictorial oeuvre was rooted in naturalism and later received influences of French neo-impressionism and of Matisse.

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