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Emil Nolde

Born – Schleswig-Holstein, Germany 1865

Died - Seebüll, Germany 1956

Emil Nolde was born into a peasant family and originally trained as a woodcarver. After studying in Munich, Nolde was invited to become a member of Die Brücke in 1906. Although also associated with the artist’s group Der Blaue Reiter, Nolde was essentially a solitary artists whose particular brand of sensual Expressionism, with its spontaneous use of colour, was very much his own. He was a prolific artist who painted figurative subjects, including theatre audiences, dancers and religious works. He also painted landscapes, seascapes, gardens and flowers. His energetic, primitive style was characterized by its use of violent colour, simplified drawing and wild brush marks. The Sea B depicts a windswept seascape typical of the flat coastline around the German-Danish border where Nolde lived for most of his life. The sea was an elemental force for Nolde, who saw, “…it not from the beach or from a boat but as it exsists in itself, devoid of any reference to man, eternally in motion, ever changing.” Nolde travelled to Russia and to the South Sea Islands. After the Second World War he lived like a recluse, completing his series Unpainted Pictures in secret, apparently still fearing persecution by the Nazis.

Masterpieces:

• Meeting on the Beach

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