(Nolde, Schleswig 1867–1956 Seebüll)
Blooming plants before blue mountains, 1914, signed Nolde, watercolours and black ink on Japan paper mounted on cardboard, 34.6 x 47 cm, framed

Photo certificate:
Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther, formally Director of the Foundation Seebüll Ada und Emil Nolde, 12 October 2017, archive-no. Nolde A 51/2017.

Provenance:
European Private Collection

Compare:
Exhibition Catalogue Emil Nolde und die Südsee. Vienna, Kunstforum Bank Austria, 13.12. 2001-3.3.2002
Munich Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, 23.3.-26.5.2002, no. 219

We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Reuther for his help in cataloguing this work.

Emil Nolde, one of the leading Expressionist artists, felt a strong attachment to nature. The perceived elementary primitiveness of the landscapes and the vitality of their changing moods was a constant source of new pictorial creations for the artist. The watercolour “Blooming plants before blue mountains” depicts exotic flowers that bloom in highly colour-intensive, uninterrupted red and yellow tones before the blue shadows of a mountain range, modulated only by a few black brushstrokes. Typically for him, Nolde positions the plants as a detail in the scene in the immediate foreground. This field observation took place in the spring of 1914 during Nolde’s voyage in the South Seas as part of the “Medical-demographic German-New Guinea expedition”.

Photo certificate:
Prof. Dr. Manfred Reuther, formally Director of the Foundation Seebüll Ada und Emil Nolde, 12 October 2017, archive-no. Nolde A 51/2017.

Provenance:
European Private Collection

Compare:
Exhibition Catalogue Emil Nolde und die Südsee. Vienna, Kunstforum Bank Austria, 13.12. 2001-3.3.2002
Munich Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, 23.3.-26.5.2002, no. 219
vWe are grateful to Prof. Dr. Reuther for his help in cataloguing this work.
vEmil Nolde, one of the leading Expressionist artists, felt a strong attachment to nature. The perceived elementary primitiveness of the landscapes and the vitality of their changing moods was a constant source of new pictorial creations for the artist. The watercolour “Blooming plants before blue mountains” depicts exotic flowers that bloom in highly colour-intensive, uninterrupted red and yellow tones before the blue shadows of a mountain range, modulated only by a few black brushstrokes. Typically for him, Nolde positions the plants as a detail in the scene in the immediate foreground. This field observation took place in the spring of 1914 during Nolde’s voyage in the South Seas as part of the “Medical-demographic German-New Guinea expedition”.