Although James Ensor stood apart from his contemporaries, this innovator in 19th-century art significantly influenced such 20th-century artists as Paul Klee, Emil Nolde, George Grosz, Alfred Kubin, Wols, Felix Nussbaum, and other expressionist and surrealist painters of the 20th century.
His friends and contemporaries at this time included the painter Emil Nolde and also Franz Marc, whose wife was among his piano students.
Works by German and Austrian Expressionists August Macke, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Alexej von Jawlensky, Max Beckmann, and Emil Nolde, along with early modern European and American masters such as Fernand Léger, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque, and Kurt Schwitters, are in the museum’s collection.
In 1927, expressionist painter and printmaker Emil Nolde designed his house Seebüll in Neukirchen, where he lived to his death.
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim | Emil Nolde | Emil Adolf von Behring | Hermann Emil Fischer | Emil Gilels | Emil Fischer | Emil Schult | Emil Constantinescu | Emil Brumaru | Franz Joseph Emil Fischer | Emil Viklický | Emil Steinberger | Emil Rödiger | Emil Nofal | Emil Młynarski | Emil Jakob Schindler | Emil Holub | Emil Haury | Emil Ghuri | Emil du Bois-Reymond | Emil Beaulieau | Emil Zátopek | Emil von Sauer | Emil Theodor Kocher | Emil Savundra | Emil River | Emil Lederer | Emil Kraepelin | Emil Knoevenagel | Emil Kapaun |
In the second decade of the 20th Century, first under the influence of his friend Ernst Gosebruch, the director of the Essen Museum of Art, Hagemann turned toward painters of Die Brücke and Emil Nolde.
Important Scandinavian and German artists of the 19th and 20th centuries are represented, including Anna Ancher, Michael Ancher, Max Beckmann, Johan Christian Dahl, Peder Severin Krøyer, Christian Krohg, Max Liebermann, Emil Nolde and Edvard Munch.