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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 vi...

  EMIL NOLDE Peter P , 1918 Öl auf Leinwand Object description Peter P  .  1918. Oil on canvas. Urban 784. Signed lower right.  Signed and titled on the stretcher.  Inscribed by a hand other than that of the artist on the stretcher.  40.7 x 33 cm (16 x 12.9 in). Verso an oil sketch "Female figure behind a screen".  [KD]. PROVENANCE: Franz Kochmann (* 1872 Gleiwitz † 1956 Utrecht), Dresden. Theo Hill Gallery, Cologne. Adolf Funke, Aachen (1956). Private collection South Germany. EXHIBITION: Artists' Association Dresden, summer exhibition, Dresden 1919, cat.-no.  98 Emil Hansen was born on August 7, 1867.  He later adopted the name of his hometown Nolde as his stage name.  After an apprenticeship in Flensburg from 1884 to 1888, he worked for various furniture factories in Munich, Karlsruhe and Berlin.  In 1892 Nolde received a position as a teacher for commercial drawing in St. Gallen.  With the decision to become a painter, Nold...

  EMIL NOLDE Marschlandschaft , 1920. Aquarell Object description Watercolor. Signed lower left.  On Japan.  35.1 x 47.9 cm (13.8 x 18.8 in), the full sheet. With a photo expertise from Dr.  Manfred Reuther, Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, from August 15, 2005. PROVENANCE: Private collection, Berlin. EXHIBITION: Emil Nolde.  World view, color, fantasy, Stadthalle Balingen, July 19 - September 7, 2008, ill. P. 127. 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 far...

  EMIL NOLDE Mohnblumen , Um 1925/1930. Aquarell Object description Poppies  .  Around 1925/1930. Watercolor. Signed lower right.  35.5 x 47.2 cm (13.9 x 18.5 in), the full sheet. With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr.  Manfred Reuther from July 19, 2017. The watercolor is listed in the Reuther archive under the number "Nolde A - 41/2017". PROVENANCE: Private collection, Wiesbaden. "Colors are my notes with which I create sounds and chords against and with one another." Emil Nolde, "Words on the Edge", May 30, 1943, quoted in "Emil Nolde - in Glut und Farbe", 2013, p. 23 essay The German painter Emil Nolde painted himself in the hearts of art lovers with colorful flower pictures.  His works impress with their color and their power.  Nolde himself describes that painting in watercolors is a need for him.  He paints people, landscapes, animals and flowers.  From the intimate nature of his early watercolors, he worked his way up to the freer, bro...

  EMIL NOLDE Holzfigur (Judas) , 1913. Öl auf Leinwand Object description Wooden figure (Judas)  .  1913. Oil on canvas. Urban 548. Signed lower left.  88 x 38.5 cm (34.6 x 15.1 in). In the personal catalog raisonné: "1910c no. 462" and "1930 '1913 Holzfigur (Judas)'".  There is a preliminary drawing for the painting that is much more based on the medieval wooden sculpture. PROVENANCE: Hermann Krause, Halle (1926). Georg Zacharias, Düsseldorf. Wirtz-Häner, Düsseldorf (received from the aforementioned). Christie's Düsseldorf, November 14th, 1973, cat.-no.  27 with illus. Private collection Krefeld. EXHIBITION: Emil Nolde.  Neue Kunst Fides, Dresden, August / September 1926. essay This traumatic experience also left its mark on his oeuvre.  Not only did he find a new way of painting, he also turned increasingly to biblical themes in the following years.  His design is completely new and far from any ingratiation to the old masters.  Nolde ...

  EMIL NOLDE Weiße Lilien und Dahlien , Um 1930. Aquarell Object description White lilies and dahlias  .  Around 1930. Watercolor. Signed lower left.  On Japan.  35 x 46.5 cm (13.7 x 18.3 in), the full sheet.  [SM]. With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr.  Manfred Reuther, Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation Seebüll, dated February 12, 2013. PROVENANCE: Private collection Germany (acquired directly from the artist in 1932). EXHIBITION: Emil Nolde, watercolors from Bielefeld's private collection, Städtisches Kunsthaus Bielefeld, 1967, No. 32. essay In Emil Nolde's painterly oeuvre, the watercolors can not only be seen as a supplement to the paintings.  At times the artist works almost exclusively in watercolor, such as  B. on his South Sea voyage, but also during the painting ban in the Third Reich and after 1951, when Nolde almost completely gave up oil painting because of a broken arm.  Seen in this way, the watercolors in his oeuvre are an ind...

  EMIL NOLDE Drei rote Tulpen , Um 1950. Aquarell Schätzung: € 70.000 Ergebnis: € 206.250 (inkl. 25% Käuferaufgeld)  Object description Three red tulips  .  Around 1950. Watercolor. Signed lower left.  With the former collection stamp of the Nolde Foundation on verso.  On Japan.  45.5 x 26.7 cm (17.9 x 10.5 in), the full sheet. With a photo expertise from Prof. Dr.  Manfred Reuther, from September 11, 2013. PROVENANCE: Nolde Foundation, Seebüll (until 1964). Gallery Commeter, Hamburg. Private collection, Hamburg. EXHIBITION: Emil Nolde.  The untamed stream of color, Lindau City Museum, March 28 - August 30, 2014. essay In Emil Nolde's watercolors, color dominates form.  Everything is subordinated to a luminous color.  Often the flowers that Nolde had in mind cannot be determined botanically.  But that didn't matter to Nolde.  He captures the color accord of his flowers in the moistened Japanese paper and allows the waterco...