Emil Nolde - Rittersporn und Dahlien, ca. 1935-40

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EMIL NOLDE
Rittersporn und Dahlien, Um 1935/1940.
Aquarell

Object description
Delphinium and dahlias . Around 1935/1940.
Watercolor.
Signed lower right. With the former collection stamp of the Nolde Foundation on verso. On Japanese laid paper. 45.5 x 34 cm (17.9 x 13.3 in), the full sheet.

With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther, Klockengries, May 10, 2017.

PROVENANCE: Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation.
Joachim von Lepel, Seebüll.
Private collection (acquired from aforementioned in the 1950s).

"I would like so much that my pictures are more, not just random, pleasant conversation, no, that they lift and move and give the visitor a full sound of life and human existence."
Emil Nolde

essay
Anyone who has ever traveled to northern Germany will be amazed at the abundance of flowers in the house gardens. One expects a rather barren flora in the landscape dominated by wind and rain. But the moist sea air seems to like flowers, and so the flower garden that Emil Nolde laid out together with his wife Ada on Seebüll has long since become an astonished legend, always in competition with the works of the master, who found the most beautiful suggestions in this garden for his famous watercolors. Less interested in the botanical definition, Emil Nolde elevated the flower, better the blossom as such, to the subject of the picture, giving it a color intensity that goes far beyond the purely botanical. Nolde's flowers are children of a longing for perfection in color, which can thus work in its actual purpose. It dominates the picture, is an expression of an emphatic enthusiasm for the pure experience of nature, which Nolde uses for his own purposes, in order to visualize it in a very unique, unmistakable way. [KD]

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