Watercolor. Signed in lower right. On thin Japan paper. 34 x 47.5 cm. , the full sheet. [EH].
- Large sheet in vibrant colors. - A clear representation of the vast, flat marshland landscape around Utenwarf on the Ruttebüller Tief, the artist's home at the time.
Accompanied by a photo certificate issued by Dr. Manfred Reuther, Foundation Seebüll Ada and Emil Nolde, from April 5, 2011.

Private collection Southern Germany

The Noldes moved from the island of Alsen to Utenwarf in 1916. The flat northern Germany landscape and the secluded rural surroundings remained a retreat and source of inspiration for the artist throughout his life. Nolde explored the vast marshlands around his home, its barren appeal, inspired solely by weather phenomena, remained a subject that Nolde interpreted with his own sensitivity. The results are exuberant color worlds, rendered on paper in his unique watercolor technique in the way the artist perceived them. Nolde thus lends an unprecedented colorfulness to a landscape that is simply flat and gray-green, devoid of any visual excess. It is the changing light moods of a vast, infinite sky that Nolde unites in a symbiosis of closeness to nature and deliberate abstraction. It is not about reality, but the perception thereof.

In good condition. Outer and left edges in particular with isolated discolorations from a former, expertly removed mounting tape. Sheet overall slightly faded. In the green area in the lower part with slight, expertly smoothed creases. A capillary paper tear (approx. 30 mm) in the lower left that was expertly closed and backed, also with a small, expertly closed paper tear in the upper left corner of the sheet. Small holes in the upper corners of the sheet and another tiny pinhole in the center right of the sheet. The overall impression is good and defined by the intense color contrasts that Nolde underlined by the contouring black.