The first volume includes biographical notes and information on Nolde's hand written lists of works (some illustrated). Volume 2 contains an essay illustrating several known fakes, an essay on the Exhibition of Degenerate Art of 1937, and a discussion of Nolde's paintings confiscated by the Nazis in 1937 and 1941. The appendices include chronological and alphabetical lists of paintings from 1895-1914 (v. 1) and 1915-1951 (v.2)