Emil Nolde - Meerabend, 1946



 EMIL NOLDE

Meerabend, Um 1946.
Aquarell

Object description
Sea evening . Around 1946.
Watercolor.
Signed lower right. On Japan. 23 x 27 cm (9 x 10.6 in), the full sheet.

With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther from November 11, 2015. The work is registered in the Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, Seebüll.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Otto Ralfs, Braunschweig.
Private collection Lower Saxony (acquired directly from the aforementioned in 1954, since then in family possession).
Private collection Bavaria.

EXHIBITION: Emil Nolde. Watercolors and overpainted lithographs, Otto Ralfs Gallery, Braunschweig, February 17-21, 1954.

essay
Emil Nolde's virtuosity in watercolor painting becomes clear in the “Sea Evening” from around 1935. The artist describes waves and sky with free, spontaneous brushstrokes and intensely bright colors, creating an extremely dense atmospheric effect. A skill that museum director Max Sauerlandt already described in his Nolde monograph in 1921: "Nolde knows the sea as no artist has known it before". Nolde's nature appears removed from the thing and lives purely from his painterly point of view, which, determined by color and form, is equally abstract. “Nolde's motifs [...] are familiar to us and stored in our visual memory. His pictures sharpen our view of the beauty of nature ”(Jörg Garbrecht, in: Emil Nolde. Meister des Aquarells, Seebüll 2011, p. 25).

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