Emil Nolde - Schwüler Abend, 1946

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EMIL NOLDE
Schwüler Abend, 1946.

Aquarell

Object description
Sultry evening . 1946.
Watercolor.
Signed lower right. Titled on the original cardboard backing. On Japan. 23.2 x 26.8 cm (9.1 x 10.5 in), the full sheet.

Colorful watercolor from the best creative period of the artist .
With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther from November 4, 2016.

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

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

essay
With the settling down on Utenwarf, Emil Nolde concentrated more and more on the things and landscapes around him. The sky and the sea become the dominant theme, which Emil Nolde interprets in a previously unprecedented way of seeing. His world of colors opens up a point of view for the viewer which, in its intensity and density of coloristics, gives the subject a new interpretation. Probably influenced by the exotic splendor of colors of the South Seas, which Emil Nolde traveled with his wife shortly before the outbreak of the First World War and to which he owes decisive impulses in his artistic work, Nolde sees the landscape of his homeland with an emphasis that the works in the following period will shape. Sky and sea. Where is the beginning Where is the end The colors and shapes merge into a magical unit. Three small steamers are the visual fixed point in this indulgent composition. They let the abstraction of the landscape become representational.

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