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Volume 46, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0167-2444
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Abstract

This article answers the question of how to deal with the works of the artist Emil Nolde (1867-1956) given his anti-Semitism and Nazism. I argue that a moral flaw of a work of art can sometimes be an aesthetic flaw of a work of art. A work of art is always aesthetically flawed insofar as it possesses an ethical flaw which is aesthetically relevant. To answer this question, I first determine why the Nazi regime did not choose Nolde’s expressionism as Nazi art and even rejected Nolde’s works as degenerate. I will then discuss the question of whether Nolde also adapted his works in some way to Nazi ideology during the Nazi period. In answering both issues, I provide my answer to the question: how we can look at this artist’s work.

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Emil Nolde: ontaard en antisemiet
Filosofie & Praktijk 46, 175 (2025); https://doi.org/10.5117/FEP.2025.2.007.STOK
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Keyword(s): anti-Semitism; Art; morality; Nazism

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