Emil Nolde - Pfingstrosen in blauer Vase, 1930
EMIL NOLDE
Pfingstrosen in blauer Vase, 1930.
Aquarell
Object description
Lot: 219
Emil Nolde
1867 Nolde / Nordschleswig - 1956 Seebüll / Schleswig-Holstein
Peonies in a blue vase . Probably 1930 / 40s.
Watercolor.
Signed lower left. On fine Japanese laid paper. 43.2 x 35.7 cm (17 x 14 in), the full sheet.
With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther, Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, dated May 8, 2009. The work is registered there.
PROVENANCE: Private collection South Germany (acquired directly from the artist).
Emil Nolde was born in 1867 in the German-Danish border region. After an apprenticeship as a furniture draftsman and wood carver in Flensburg from 1884 to 1888, he received a position as a teacher for commercial drawing at the trade museum in St. Gallen in 1892. There Nolde is known for his small colored drawings of the Swiss mountains. With the decision to become a painter, Nolde 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 rented a studio in Copenhagen and in 1903 he moved to the island of Alsen. By dealing with the Neo-Impressionists from 1905 onwards, Nolde moved from a romantic naturalism to his own style in which color played an essential role. In 1906, during a stay in Alsen, Nolde met the "Brücke" painters, whose group he temporarily joined. The turn to watercolor begins with portrait studies. When Nolde made his first attempts at this technique in 1909 on non-absorbent paper, leaving the white sheet in large parts and dispensing with contouring, these innovations were trend-setting. After a controversy with Max Liebermann, Nolde was expelled from the "Berlin Secession" and founded the "New Secession" in 1910 with other rejected artists. From 1916 he spent the summer on the island of Föhr and settled in Seebüll in 1928. The garden created there becomes an inexhaustible source of inspiration for his painting, coastal landscapes and religious scenes also become main subjects.
Nolde is not a flower painter and yet this topic has an important place in his oeuvre. If in his early flower pictures, which he made in the garden of his parents' house, he tried to capture an apparently infinite abundance of pansies or tulips in oil on canvas, he mainly used the medium of watercolor to depict flowers in his later works. Nolde's love for flowers goes back to his childhood and has accompanied his entire artistic career. As in our example, it is the purity and freedom of the color, but also the combination of beauty and transience, which stimulates the artist again and again. "The blooming colors of the flowers and the purity of these colors, I love them. I love the flowers in their destiny: sprouting, blooming, glowing brightly, exhilarating, leaning, withering, ending discarded in the pit. Our human fate is not always as logical and beautiful [...] "(quoted from Martin Urban, Emil Nolde. Flowers and animals. Watercolors and drawings, Cologne 1965, pp. 7-8).
Ostracized as an artist during the war, and since 1941 the National Socialists had been banned from working, Nolde began painting his "Unpainted Pictures" in Seebüll from 1938, many hundreds of small watercolors, which he took up again as oil paintings after 1945. On April 13, 1956, Nolde died in his house in Seebüll. [JS].
Emil Nolde
1867 Nolde / Nordschleswig - 1956 Seebüll / Schleswig-Holstein
Peonies in a blue vase . Probably 1930 / 40s.
Watercolor.
Signed lower left. On fine Japanese laid paper. 43.2 x 35.7 cm (17 x 14 in), the full sheet.
With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther, Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, dated May 8, 2009. The work is registered there.
PROVENANCE: Private collection South Germany (acquired directly from the artist).
Emil Nolde was born in 1867 in the German-Danish border region. After an apprenticeship as a furniture draftsman and wood carver in Flensburg from 1884 to 1888, he received a position as a teacher for commercial drawing at the trade museum in St. Gallen in 1892. There Nolde is known for his small colored drawings of the Swiss mountains. With the decision to become a painter, Nolde 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 rented a studio in Copenhagen and in 1903 he moved to the island of Alsen. By dealing with the Neo-Impressionists from 1905 onwards, Nolde moved from a romantic naturalism to his own style in which color played an essential role. In 1906, during a stay in Alsen, Nolde met the "Brücke" painters, whose group he temporarily joined. The turn to watercolor begins with portrait studies. When Nolde made his first attempts at this technique in 1909 on non-absorbent paper, leaving the white sheet in large parts and dispensing with contouring, these innovations were trend-setting. After a controversy with Max Liebermann, Nolde was expelled from the "Berlin Secession" and founded the "New Secession" in 1910 with other rejected artists. From 1916 he spent the summer on the island of Föhr and settled in Seebüll in 1928. The garden created there becomes an inexhaustible source of inspiration for his painting, coastal landscapes and religious scenes also become main subjects.
Nolde is not a flower painter and yet this topic has an important place in his oeuvre. If in his early flower pictures, which he made in the garden of his parents' house, he tried to capture an apparently infinite abundance of pansies or tulips in oil on canvas, he mainly used the medium of watercolor to depict flowers in his later works. Nolde's love for flowers goes back to his childhood and has accompanied his entire artistic career. As in our example, it is the purity and freedom of the color, but also the combination of beauty and transience, which stimulates the artist again and again. "The blooming colors of the flowers and the purity of these colors, I love them. I love the flowers in their destiny: sprouting, blooming, glowing brightly, exhilarating, leaning, withering, ending discarded in the pit. Our human fate is not always as logical and beautiful [...] "(quoted from Martin Urban, Emil Nolde. Flowers and animals. Watercolors and drawings, Cologne 1965, pp. 7-8).
Ostracized as an artist during the war, and since 1941 the National Socialists had been banned from working, Nolde began painting his "Unpainted Pictures" in Seebüll from 1938, many hundreds of small watercolors, which he took up again as oil paintings after 1945. On April 13, 1956, Nolde died in his house in Seebüll. [JS].
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