Emil Nolde - Das Meer (Bewegte blaue See mit mächtigen Wogen), 1930



Emil Nolde 

Das Meer (Bewegte blaue See mit mächtigen Wogen), 1930


Object description
The sea (moving blue sea with mighty waves) . Around 1930.
Watercolor and opaque white.
Signed lower left. On Japan. 33.8 x 44.6 cm (13.3 x 17.5 in), the full sheet.

With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther from February 10, 2015. The work is registered in the Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, Seebüll.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Saarland.

essay
There is hardly a painter of classical modernism who has dealt artistically with the sea and its phenomena as intensely as Emil Nolde. The sea so close to his chosen domicile in Seebüll has repeatedly inspired Nolde to interpretations that go beyond conventional descriptions. He has gained color aspects from a North Sea, which is preferably shown in gray-blue, which show his own view of the sea. In doing so, he gave a completely new aspect to a landscape without a land. The undulating crests described here in their blue unfathomable in front of a twilight evening sky in rust-red are an expression of fascination and admiration for an elementary violence, as it has to offer the pristine nature.

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