1867 | born as Hans Emil Hansen in Nolde (Schleswig) |
1884-88 | apprenticeship as a carver and furniture draftsman in Flensburg |
1888 | Nolde works in various furniture workshops in Munich and Karlsruhe |
1889 | Work in a Berlin furniture workshop |
1892 | Teacher for ornamental drawing and modeling at the School of Arts and Crafts in St. Gallen (Switzerland) |
1898 | Attends private painting schools in Munich and Dessau |
1899 | Attends the Académie Julian in Paris |
1901 | Berlin; member of the "Secession" there |
1902 | Marriage to the actress Ada Vilstrup |
from 1903 | Nolde spends summers on the island of Alsen |
1905 | Etching series "Phantasies", beginning of his graphic work |
1906 | Acquaintance with the artists of the "Brücke |
1909 | Moves to Ruttebüll (Schleswig) |
1911 | Controversy with Max Liebermann, expulsion from the "Secession," joins the "Neue Secession |
1913/14 | Participates in an expedition of the Reichskolonialamt to New Guinea |
1926 | Moves to Seebüll (North Frisia) |
1931 | Member of the Prussian Academy of Arts |
1934 | as a Danish citizen, member of the National Socialist Working Group of Northern Schleswig (NSAN), which is "assimilated" with the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in the following year |
1937 | Work defamed as "degenerate art" despite membership in the NSDAP |
1938-45 | Nolde produces mainly small-format watercolors, his "unpainted pictures |
1952 | Appointed to the Peace Class of the Order "Pour le Mérite |
1956 | dies in Seebüll |