Service Staatliche Museen zu Berlin On 30 July 2019, Sophie Noblia became the 120,000th visitor to be welcomed at the exhibition "Emil Nolde - A German Legend. The Artist during the Nazi Regime" at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin The exhibition is open until 15 September 2019 They handed the lucky visitors a copy of the two-volume exhibition catalogue They then received an introduction to the exhibition "Emil Nolde The Expressionist Emil Nolde is arguably the most famous ‘degenerate artist’ No other artist had as many works confiscated nor were their works as prominently displayed in the early venues of the Degenerate Art exhibition of 1937/38 How does Nolde’s ostracism and occupational ban fit with our knowledge that he was a National Socialist (Nazi) Party member and that he kept faith with the regime until the end of the war The art critic Adolf Behne underlined Nolde’s special status on the artist’s eightieth birthday in 1947 by pointedly referring to him as a “degenerate ‘degenerate’” It has long been known that Emil Nolde was a party member Yet no previous exhibition has thoroughly examined what this had to do with his art or how the historical circumstances around National Socialism affected his artistic production The exhibition "Emil Nolde – A German Legend The Artist during the Nazi Regime" is based on the results of a multi-year academic research project which for the first time was able to analyse the extensive holdings of the Nolde estate in Seebüll uncovering so much new material that the conventional Nolde narrative must be revised. Thus the exhibition will present the famous "Unpainted Pictures" – the small-format watercolours Nolde was reputed to have secretly painted at Seebüll during his occupational ban – in a completely new light explaining them as part of a long-standing practice of self-stylisation The importance of this self-stylisation – and how strongly it has influenced our view of Nolde – will be demonstrated to visitors through a reconstruction of the ‘hall of paintings’ in Nolde’s studio house in Seebüll This reconstruction will display the paintings and watercolours just as the ageing artist himself arranged them during the wartime winter of 1941/42 The exhibition will present over 100 originals some of which have not previously been shown with references to Nolde’s writings and in the historical context of their creation in order to reveal the multi-layered relationships between paintings a richly illustrated volume of essays and pictures (also in an English edition) as well a separate volume with a timeline and more than 100 documents will be published by the Prestel Verlag.  in cooperation with the Nolde Foundation Seebüll made possible by the Freunde der Nationalgalerie and supported by the Friede Springer Stiftung The “Basilio Balda” and “Vicente del Rio” Xare tournaments were held at the end of October at the trinquetes of the Laurak Bat and Gure Etxea Basque clubs in Buenos Aires and at Euzko Etxea of La Plata.  After ten years the tournaments returned to the coast where 25 teams from Europe and South America participated [One of the games played at the Gure Etxea club The “Basilio Balda” and “Vicente del Rio” tournaments coincided with other activities like a roundtable in Basque that was attended by players and other people interested in this handball style fans [The roundtable took place at Laurak Bat.  There 15 people gathered including some players as well as Basque teachers and students.  Throughout the talk various themes were discussed including sports (scoring system how the leagues work in the Basque Country and France the difference between Xare’s situation in Iparralde and Hegoalde and questions related to the Basque Selection (photo Copa del Rio/Balda)] Palais with Mathieu Bordenave and Bixente Etchebest Silver Medal: Endaiarrak with Nicolas Sansebastian and Vincent Baudias Bronze Medal: Noizbait with Olivier Laberdesque and Ramuntxo Bortheyrou Argentinean doubles-teams from Laurak Bat-Gure Echea Alan Correa and Nicolas Sanabria in the Balda Cup and Miguel Coluccio and Santiago Gramajo in the Rio Cup made it to the semifinals “in an excellent showing that shows the high international level of our players,” from the centers five-time Xare world champion and an Argentinean sports wonder the events in both Buenos Aires and La Plata served to begin work on a regular tournament of this sort guaranteeing competition between athletes in other countries.  In relation to this Pablo Ubierna one of the organizers told EuskalKultura.com that even if the next date has yet to be decided holding them in Argentina every 2-3 years was discusses with financial help on behalf of entities in Iparralde.  The goal of promoting sports was also broached and Ubierna told us that he is working on a book on the history of Xare in Argentina and under the direction of well-known filmmaker Dieguillo Fernandez that a film of the 2013 tournaments will be made Anyone who would like to learn how to play or practice Xare in Argentina can do it at the Xare School at Euzko Etxea Basque Club in La Plata and at the Laurak Bat Club in Buenos Aires.  It has also been announced that the directors of Xare in these clubs and the Confederation of Basque Pilota in Argentina are also interested in opening new schools and offer their support to interested institutions.  All the tournament photos can be seen on the Facebook page “Copas del Rio Balda.” This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.