Emil Nolde - Marschlandschaft (Wiedau-Niederung um Utenwarf), ca. 1920-25

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EMIL NOLDE
Marschlandschaft (Wiedau-Niederung um Utenwarf), Um 1920/ 1925

Object description
Marshland (Wiedau lowlands around Utenwarf) . Around 1920/1925.
Watercolor.
Signed lower right. With the collection stamp of the Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation (not in Lugt) and the handwritten number "K a 8" on the reverse. On Japan. 35.5 x 49.4 cm (13.9 x 19.4 in), the full sheet.

With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther, Klockries, from April 26, 2017.

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.

essay
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 results are exuberant worlds of color, as the artist perceives them and brings them to paper in his inimitable 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 light 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.

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