Emil Nolde: Landscapes

About this book

The austere north German landscapeits flat horizons and soaring dramatic skies crowded with dark cloudsplayed a central role in the work and imaginary of Emil Nolde (18671956). Growing up near the North Sea in the German-Danish border region Nolde observed the meeting of sky land and water in vast unbroken stretches. "The landscape of my youth was like a fairytale to me " he wrote. "My parental home in the flat country the skylarks swooping joyfully through the air above my wonderland from sea to sea" Years after he had left his native region these brooding landscapes continued to appear in his work their simplified shapes rendered in Noldes characteristic brilliant color palette and depicted from extreme distances. Emil Nolde: Landscapes collects 30 of Noldes watercolor landscapes made around 1918 many previously unpublished in a small gift-book format.