Emil Nolde - Bergfrühling, 1920-24

 


EMIL NOLDE
Bergfrühling, 1920/ 24.
Aquarell

Object description
Mountain spring . 1920/24
watercolor and ink.
Signed lower right. On Japan. 35 x 46.8 cm (13.7 x 18.4 in), the full sheet. [SM].

With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther from October 28, 2017.

PROVENANCE: Private collection (acquired around 1977).
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

"Once upon a time it was as if Switzerland should have become my home country."
Emil Nolde

essay
The offered watercolor "Mountain Spring" shows a relatively unknown side of the artist: his enthusiasm for Switzerland and its imposing mountain landscape. Works from Nolde's time in St. Gallen and Davos, Switzerland, rarely find their way onto the art market, making the present work a rarity and specialty. As a member of the Swiss Alpine Club SAC, Nolde explores the mountain landscape on many climbing tours and conquers peaks of up to 4000 meters. The artist captured this direct experience of the alpine world in expressive colored watercolors even years later, as did the spring events in the paper work created around 1930. As in his coast and sea pictures, Nolde manages once again to capture the power of nature in its color intensity:

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