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His native landscape - Friesland in Germany, near the border with Denmark, was characterised by dramatic light effects and cloud formations. Nolde was associated with the radical Expressionist art group 'Die Brucke', but tempermentally he preferred to work in isolation, and was only formally allied to the group for a year around 1906-7.","physicalDescription":"View of landscape, with low horizon, farm buildings in red and blue at left beneath a dark sky with large diagonal area of red cloud.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Nolde, Emil","id":"A3149"},"association":{"text":"painter","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"water-colour","id":"AAT15045"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AP2647","2019MC8931"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"WS","id":"THES49603"},"free":"","case":"R","shelf":"69","box":"R"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"watercolour","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Friesland","id":"x29766"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":""},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1930","earliest":"1925-01-01","latest":"1934-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":""},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"35.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"47.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Framed in plain oak frame: 578 x 783 x 23 mm","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'Nolde'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"lower right","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"Signature","note":"Signature; lower right"}],"objectHistory":"The area depicted is North Friesland, the western coastal area of Schleswig-Holstein. Nolde had a house there - in Seebull - where he moved in 1927. This watercolour was in the 'Emil Nolde' exhibition, Marlborough Fine Art, 1964, No. 53 (repr.).","historicalContext":"Werner Haftmann, curator of the Nolde Museum in Seebull, writes tellingly of the roots of Nolde's art : 'It sprang directly from his native soil, that lonely, flat coast spread between sea and sky, up near the Danish border under whose tall sky, marked by flaming light effects and dramatic cloud formations, objects and people acquire a strange legendary quality. The setting itself strongly intensifies the visionary faculty of its inhabitants.'\r\n\r\n\r\nNolde was formally allied to the radical Expressionists 'Die Brucke' in 1906 but his intense individuality made it difficult for him to sustain communal activity and although his work had and retained a powerful expressionist character, he withdrew his membership of the group in 1907.\r\n\r\n[Rosemary Miles, '100 Great Paintings from the V&A', p.194]","briefDescription":"Watercolour entitled 'Friesland Farm under Red Clouds' by Emil Nolde.  German School, ca. 1930.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>100 Great Paintings in The Victoria & Albert Museum.</u> London: V&A, 1985, p.194"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1964.</u> London: HMSO, 1965."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Friesland","id":"x29766"},{"text":"Netherlands","id":"x29020"}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"farms","id":"AAT206"},{"text":"clouds","id":"x30091"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Emil Nolde 1867-1956\nFriesland Farm under Red Clouds\nAbout 1930; signed\n\n\nNolde painted this visionary landscape in Friesland in north Germany. The evenings, he wrote, had a 'wild restless beauty...when the last hovering clouds pass their fiery fingers across the vault of the sky and the light dies in smouldering, shifting colours'. \nLike other Expressionist artists, Nolde tried to communicate the inner, spiritual world.\n\n\nWatercolour on paper\n\nPurchased 1964\nMuseum no. P.7-1964","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["P.7-1964"],"accessionNumberNum":"7","accessionNumberPrefix":"P","accessionYear":1964,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-21","recordCreationDate":"2000-02-21","availableToBook":false}}