Emil Nolde - Segler, ca. 1935-40

 

EMIL NOLDE

Segler, Um 1935/ 1940.

Aquarell und Tusche

Object description

Sailors . Around
1935/1940. Watercolor and Indian ink.
Signed on the upper right. Titled on the cardboard by Ada Nolde. On Japan. 17 x 13.8 cm (6.6 x 5.4 in), the full sheet.

With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther, Klockries, from November 3, 2018. The watercolor is listed in the Reuther archive under the number "Nolde A - 107/2018".

PROVENANCE: Dr. Otto Mayring, Hanover (with the address on the back of the frame).
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, 35th auction, May 20-21, 1960, lot 451 (from the aforementioned collection, with the label on the back of the frame).
Private collection Southern Germany (acquired from aforementioned).

essay

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. After an apprenticeship as a furniture draftsman and wood carver in Flensburg from 1884 to 1888, he worked for various furniture factories in Munich, Karlsruhe and Berlin. In 1892 Emil Nolde received a position as a teacher for commercial drawing at the trade museum in St. Gallen, which he held until 1898. There, where primarily landscape watercolors and drawings by the mountain farmers were created, Nolde became known for his small colored drawings of the Swiss mountains. With the decision to become a painter, Nolde finally 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 rents a studio in Copenhagen and in 1903 moves to the island of Alsen. By dealing with the post-impressionists Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch and James Ensor, from 1905 onwards, Nolde went 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, whose group he temporarily joined. 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. In 1910 Emil Nolde was excluded from the "Berliner Sezession" after a controversy with Max Liebermann and founded the "Neue Sezession" with other rejected artists, in whose exhibitions he participated until 1912. Fascinated less by Berlin city life, which he captures in a few expressive pictures, than by primitivism, Nolde paints still lifes with exotic figures and masked pictures. He brought back a wealth of study material from an expedition to New Guinea in 1913/14, which he processed in numerous works until 1915. as fascinated by primitivism, Nolde paints still lifes with exotic figures and masked pictures. He brought back a wealth of study material from an expedition to New Guinea in 1913/14, which he processed in numerous works until 1915. as fascinated by primitivism, Nolde paints still lifes with exotic figures and masked pictures. He brought back a wealth of study material from an expedition to New Guinea in 1913/14, which he processed in numerous works until 1915.
There is hardly a painter of classical modernism who has dealt artistically with the sea and its phenomena as intensely as Emil Nolde. The sea so close to his chosen domicile in Seebüll has repeatedly inspired Nolde to interpretations that go beyond conventional descriptions. He has gained color aspects from a North Sea, which is preferably shown in gray-blue, which show his own view of the sea. In doing so, he gave a completely new aspect to a landscape without a land. The undulating crests described here in their blue unfathomable in front of a twilight evening sky in orange-red are an expression of fascination and admiration for an elementary violence, as it has to offer unadulterated nature.
In the summer of 1916 Ada and Emil Nolde moved to Utenwarf and shortly afterwards 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 by the National Socialists and banned from working from 1941, Nolde began painting his "Unpainted Pictures" in Seebüll from 1938, many hundreds of small watercolors, which he took up again after 1945 as oil paintings. 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. [SM]