Emil Nolde - Seebüll unter blau-violettem Himmel, 1940
Seebüll under a blue-violet sky . Around 1940.
Watercolor.
Signed lower right. On Japan. 34.8: 48.5 cm (13.7: 19 in), the full sheet. Emil Hansen was born on August 7, 1867 in the German-Danish border region. He later adopted the name of his hometown Nolde as his stage name. With the decision to become a painter, Nolde went to Munich in 1898, but the academy under Franz von Stuck rejected him. This was followed by studies at Adolf Hölzel's private painting school in Dachau and, from 1899, at the Académie Julian in Paris. By dealing with the neo-impressionists Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch and James Ensor, Nolde moved from his initially romantic naturalism to an independent style in which color played an essential role. color-intensive, luminous flower pictures are created. In 1906 Nolde met the "Brücke" painters on Alsen, whose group he temporarily joins. The turn to watercolor begins in a series of portrait studies. When Nolde made his first attempts at this technique in 1909 on non-absorbent paper, leaving large parts of the white sheet and dispensing with contouring in the object detection, these innovations were forward-looking. After a controversy with Max Liebermann, Nolde was expelled from the "Berliner Sezession" and founded the "Neue Sezession" in 1910 with other rejected artists, in whose exhibitions he participated until 1912. From an expedition to New Guinea in 1914 he brought back a wealth of study material, which he processed in numerous works until 1915. From 1916 he spent his summers on the island of Föhr and settled in Seebüll in 1927. The garden created there becomes an inexhaustible source of inspiration for his painting, coastal landscapes and religious scenes also become main subjects. Ostracized as an artist during the war, and also affected by a work ban by the National Socialists since 1941, 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.
Our watercolor, which shows the artist's self-designed living and studio building under a stormy sky, was probably created around this time. "The clouds in the high sky are the real actors in this flat land by the sea. Nature offers him the images as if on a huge stage, the cloudy sky becomes an exciting scene with the dramatic figures of the mountains of clouds [...]" (M. Urban in: E. Nolde. Landscapes. Watercolors and drawings, Cologne 1969, p. 28). Despite the dramatic tone of the composition, Nolde manages to unite light and color in perfect harmony and to interweave the various picture elements through a rhythmic color scheme. The color of the red-violet clinker building is reflected in the looming clouds, which in turn cast their colored shadows on the vast,
In the last years of his life, he mainly created watercolors with flower and landscape motifs from the vicinity of his house in Seebüll, where Nolde died on April 13, 1956. [ME]
EXPERTISE: With a photo expertise from Dr. Manfred Reuther, Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, dated October 6, 2008. The work is registered there
PROVENANCE: Galerie Jacques Benador, Geneva.
Private collection South Germany (since approx. 1960).
In good condition. Edges cut irregularly in places. With insignificant crease marks due to the technology. Loosely laid on a base.
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