Emil Nolde - Untergehende Sonne, 1920
EMIL NOLDE
Untergehende Sonne, 1920.
Aquarell
Object description
Setting sun . Around 1920/1925.
Watercolor.
Signed lower right. On Japan. 35.3 x 48 cm (13.8 x 18.8 in), the full sheet.
With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther, Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, dated May 3, 2013.
PROVENANCE: Private collection South Germany (acquired directly from the artist).
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 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, during a stay in Alsen, 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. From an expedition to New Guinea in 1913, he brought back a wealth of study material, which he processed in numerous works until 1915. From 1916 he spent the summer on the island of Föhr and settled in Seebüll in 1928. 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. From an expedition to New Guinea in 1913, he brought back a wealth of study material, which he processed in numerous works until 1915. From 1916 he spent the summer on the island of Föhr and settled in Seebüll in 1928. 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. From an expedition to New Guinea in 1913, he brought back a wealth of study material, which he processed in numerous works until 1915. From 1916 he spent the summer on the island of Föhr and settled in Seebüll in 1928.
Other artists had already discovered the dramatic sky over the landscape before Emil Nolde, if we only think of the Dutch of the seventeenth century or of the tremendously moving skies in the paintings of William Turner. Caspar David Friedrich's "Monk by the Sea" stands as if lost in infinity under an almost threatening sky in gray-blue tones. Emil Nolde had a lot to counter this. His dominant skies are a novelty in their bright colors. Nolde's love for the barren North Frisian homeland had allowed him to take root again where he came from. He sees the local landscape in an abundance of colors that he primarily assigns to the sky. The high sky over a largely flat landscape is the measure of all things for Emil Nolde. All colors, that misses the landscape benefits him. Using a brilliant watercolor technique that Nolde had developed, he lets the sky light up; makes him the dominant element in the picture.
Ostracized as an artist by the National Socialists and banned from working 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. 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 in 1956. [KP / KD].
Watercolor.
Signed lower right. On Japan. 35.3 x 48 cm (13.8 x 18.8 in), the full sheet.
With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther, Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, dated May 3, 2013.
PROVENANCE: Private collection South Germany (acquired directly from the artist).
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 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, during a stay in Alsen, 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. From an expedition to New Guinea in 1913, he brought back a wealth of study material, which he processed in numerous works until 1915. From 1916 he spent the summer on the island of Föhr and settled in Seebüll in 1928. 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. From an expedition to New Guinea in 1913, he brought back a wealth of study material, which he processed in numerous works until 1915. From 1916 he spent the summer on the island of Föhr and settled in Seebüll in 1928. 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. From an expedition to New Guinea in 1913, he brought back a wealth of study material, which he processed in numerous works until 1915. From 1916 he spent the summer on the island of Föhr and settled in Seebüll in 1928.
Other artists had already discovered the dramatic sky over the landscape before Emil Nolde, if we only think of the Dutch of the seventeenth century or of the tremendously moving skies in the paintings of William Turner. Caspar David Friedrich's "Monk by the Sea" stands as if lost in infinity under an almost threatening sky in gray-blue tones. Emil Nolde had a lot to counter this. His dominant skies are a novelty in their bright colors. Nolde's love for the barren North Frisian homeland had allowed him to take root again where he came from. He sees the local landscape in an abundance of colors that he primarily assigns to the sky. The high sky over a largely flat landscape is the measure of all things for Emil Nolde. All colors, that misses the landscape benefits him. Using a brilliant watercolor technique that Nolde had developed, he lets the sky light up; makes him the dominant element in the picture.
Ostracized as an artist by the National Socialists and banned from working 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. 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 in 1956. [KP / KD].
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