Emil Nolde - Sonnenblumen, ca. 1930

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EMIL NOLDE
Sonnenblumen, Um 1930
Aquarell

Object description
Sunflowers . Around 1930.
Watercolor.
Signed lower right. On Japanese laid paper. 46.5 x 34.8 cm (18.3 x 13.7 in), the full sheet.

With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther from January 18, 2010. The work is registered in the Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, Seebüll.

PROVENANCE: Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

essay
No matter where Emil Nolde settles, he creates a flower garden in his new home. With the emphasis of the admirer, he pays homage to the multifaceted beauty of nature in his work. It is the natural intensity of color that fascinates him and that he wants to paint as undiminished as possible. Light and color dissolve the details of the motif, yet the specifics of each flower remain recognizable. The purely realistic reproduction of the plant world is not the goal, rather he wants to express the states of the soul. Despite his fascination with botany as a whole, the sunflower developed into his main motif, both in oil paintings and in watercolor. Nolde stages the flower heads large in the picture, so that they almost seem to burst the picture frame. The petals blur into a surface of color that appears as a glowing sun glory. Nolde masters the masterly handling of colors and shapes like hardly any other artist of his generation. In the merging of formal means and statement, his watercolors gain a size that gives them an equal rank next to the artist's paintings.

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