Franz Nölken (1884 - 1918)
Franz Nölken (5 May 1884, Borgeln, North Rhine-Westphalia [1] - 4 November 1918, near La Capelle ) was a German Expressionist painter; occasionally associated with Die Brücke , an artists' society in Dresden. Biography When he was still a small child, his family moved to Hamburg. At the age of sixteen, he began attending the Johanneum , a liberal arts gymnasium . On the advice of Alfred Lichtwark , the Director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle , he took classes from Arthur Siebelist , who eschewed the Academic approach and took his students to paint en plein aire . He joined the Hamburgischer Künstlerklub [ de ] in 1903 and, the following year, had his first exhibition at the prestigious Galerie Commeter [ de ] with fellow students Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann , Fritz Friedrichs , Walter Alfred Rosam and Walter Voltmer [ de ] . [1] ...