Word: bruke
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Nolde belonged to the radical group, Die Bruke, for a year; and his woodcut portrait, "The Prophet," is one of the most famous examples of their German Expressionism. But the artist did not consider himself cosmopolitan like his contemporaries. This sentiment is emphasized by his deep committment to the land his ancestors had farmed and his native village, from which he took his surname. When Nolde offered a vision of his German homeland, the Nazis not only forbade him to work (with little success), but ridiculed him and other artists in the 1937 exhibit of "Degenerate Art." Their fear...
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