Emil Nolde - Frauenkopf mit rotem Haar, 1925
(inkl. 20% Käuferaufgeld
Woman's head with red hair . Around 1925.
Watercolor.
Signed lower right. On easy Japan. 47.5: 35.5 cm (18.7: 13.9 in), the full sheet. Emil Hansen was born on August 7, 1867 in the German-Danish border region. He later adopted the name of his hometown Nolde as his stage name. In 1892 Nolde received a position as a teacher for commercial drawing at the trade museum in St. Gallen, which he held until 1898. In those places where primarily landscape watercolors and drawings by mountain farmers were created, Nolde became known for his small colored drawings of the Swiss mountains. With the decision to become a painter, Nolde finally goes to Munich, but the academy under Franz von Stuck rejects him. This was followed by studies at Adolf Hölzel's private painting school in Dachau and, from 1899, at the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1900 he rents a studio in Copenhagen and in 1903 moves to the island of Alsen. By dealing with the neo-impressionists Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch and James Ensor, Nolde moved from his initially romantic naturalism to an independent style in which color played an essential role. color-intensive, luminous flower pictures are created. In 1906 Nolde met the "Brücke" painters, whose group he temporarily joined. The turn to watercolor begins in a series of portrait studies. When Nolde made his first attempts at this technique in 1909 on non-absorbent paper, leaving large parts of the white sheet and dispensing with contouring in the object detection, these innovations were forward-looking. In 1910 he founded the "Neue Sezession" with other artists, in whose exhibitions he participated until 1912.
Like other watercolors by Emil Nolde, the impressively large-format portrait of a young woman was created in a single, albeit very intensive, operation. The effect on the viewer develops solely from the color, which Nolde brings to paper with special luminosity thanks to his process of painting wet on wet. This simple composition, which sees the portrait head aligned towards a central axis, underlines the suggestive effect of the sheet. The dark background makes the colors stand out all the more clearly. Emil Nolde's portraits are less of an intensive questioning of what is depicted; rather, in their almost abstract modeling of facial features, they are fixed on a type that recurs in him in many forms.
In 1928 Nolde settled in Seebüll. The garden created there becomes an inexhaustible source of inspiration for his painting, coastal landscapes and religious scenes also become main subjects. Ostracized as an artist during the war, and since 1941 affected by a work ban by the National Socialists, Nolde began painting his "Unpainted Pictures" from 1938, which he took up again as oil paintings after 1945. Emil Node died on April 13, 1956 in his house in Seebüll. [KD]
EXPERTISE: With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr. Martin Urban, Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, dated February 19, 1986. The work is registered there
PROVENANCE: Collection Dr. Gustav Schiefler.
Private collection Germany.
EXHIBITION: German and French masterpieces of the 20th century, Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig, Düsseldorf, October 15, 1965 to January 15, 1966.
In good condition with fresh colors. Edges cut irregularly. Lower right corner with mounting on verso, this minimally translucent to the front.
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