Emil Nolde - Landschaft (Marschlandschaft in der Dämmerung), ca. 1925

 


EMIL NOLDE
Landschaft (Marschlandschaft in der Dämmerung), Um 1925.

Aquarell

Object description
Landscape (marshland at dusk) . Around 1925.
Watercolor and India ink brush.
Signed lower right. On Japan. 36.5 x 50.6 cm (14.3 x 19.9 in), the full sheet.

Large-format landscape watercolor in dark, glowing tones .
With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther from November 4, 2016.

PROVENANCE: Robert Sterck Collection, Cologne.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

essay
The marshland, shaped by the nearby sea and the rapidly changing effects of the weather, was, despite its almost unspectacular simplicity, the source of color inspiration for Emil Nolde. Nobody before him had seen this landscape like that and described it with his own sympathy. Nolde elevates the Nordic landscape into a mystical transfiguration by submitting the color palette entirely to his ingenuity and thus creating a completely new image of it. The event is not spectacular topographical features. It is the sky and the flat landscape that determine what is happening in the picture. But they do it in such an unusual way that everything we know about this landscape is dwarfed. Emil Nolde gave the marshland a new and unusually distinctive image, primarily with his watercolors,

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