Emil Nolde - Marschlandschaft, Ca. 1920-25
EMIL NOLDE
Marschlandschaft, Ca. 1920/1925.
Aquarell
Object description
Marshland . 1920/1925.
Watercolor.
Signed lower right. On Japan. 34.2 x 48 cm (13.4 x 18.8 in), the full sheet.
With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther, former director of the Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, Klockries, dated May 2, 2018. The work is registered in his archive under the number "Nolde A - 83/2018".
PROVENANCE: Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf.
Collection Dr. Hugo and Madeleine Simons, Rhineland, later Montreal, Canada (acquired from aforementioned between 1926 and 1933, since then in family ownership).
EXHIBITION: The Simons Collection, Goethe House, Montreal 1964.
"I longed for high, open air, for austere, strong beauty, as the west coast with its wide span of the sky and the clouds over marshland and water gives it so lavishly, especially in the rough seasons."
Emil Nolde (quoted from: Manfred Reuther, Landscapes, Gardens and Meere - Nolde's Creativity from Color, p. 125ff, in: A. Husslein-Arco / S. Koja, Emil Nolde. In Glut und Farbe, 2014)
Watercolor.
Signed lower right. On Japan. 34.2 x 48 cm (13.4 x 18.8 in), the full sheet.
With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther, former director of the Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, Klockries, dated May 2, 2018. The work is registered in his archive under the number "Nolde A - 83/2018".
PROVENANCE: Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf.
Collection Dr. Hugo and Madeleine Simons, Rhineland, later Montreal, Canada (acquired from aforementioned between 1926 and 1933, since then in family ownership).
EXHIBITION: The Simons Collection, Goethe House, Montreal 1964.
"I longed for high, open air, for austere, strong beauty, as the west coast with its wide span of the sky and the clouds over marshland and water gives it so lavishly, especially in the rough seasons."
Emil Nolde (quoted from: Manfred Reuther, Landscapes, Gardens and Meere - Nolde's Creativity from Color, p. 125ff, in: A. Husslein-Arco / S. Koja, Emil Nolde. In Glut und Farbe, 2014)
essay
It shows the wide, amphibious marshland around Utenwarf with the Wiedau valley and the Ruttebüller lake. Emil Nolde is breaking new ground with his marshland. The roots in the North Frisian homeland moved him to settle down there and realize his own visual language. The expanse of the marshland that surrounds Nolde's residence becomes the goal of his explorations and remains in its austere severity, only inspired by weather-related events, a brittle subject that Nolde interprets with his own emphasis. The result is exuberant worlds of color, as the artist perceives them and brings them to paper in his unique watercolor technique. Nolde thus gives a landscape that is simply flat and gray-green, devoid of any visual excesses, an unprecedented level of color. It is the changing lighting moods of a wide sky that knows no boundaries that Nolde captures in order to combine them into a symbiosis of perceived closeness to nature and deliberate abstraction. Reality is not required, but a sense of reality. [SM]
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