EMIL NOLDE
(Nolde 1867-1956 Seebüll)
Southern evening landscape. 1924.
Watercolor on Japanese paper.
Signed in pencil lower right: Nolde.
34.5x47.7cm.
With a report from Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther, Director of the Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde Foundation, Seebüll, September 6, 2006. (Original from the customer). Literature: - See: Emil Nolde: Travel - Ostracism - Liberation, in: Emil Nolde, Memories, DuMont, Kön 2002, p. 64 f. In the style of marshland, some watercolors also bear witness to Emil Nolde"s travels. In the spring of 1924 he went on a short trip to Italy (Venice, Rapallo, Florence and Arezzo). This watercolor was created here, probably shortly after sunset, and reflects the mood of an intense twilight. The lighting atmosphere captured in this way shows, on the one hand, the landscape and sky still reflecting color in shades of green, red, blue and violet, and on the other hand, clouds that are already "in the shadow" and a palm tree on the left edge, which shows us that we are located in the south.