1930
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Friesland Farm under red clouds is a 1930 watercolor by Emil Nolde, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Friesland Farm under red clouds is a landscape painting. It was created by German artist Emil Nolde. Nolde's work often features his native landscape, which is known for dramatic light effects and cloud formations. This is reflected in his use of vivid colours to emphasize the intense quality of his paintings. To learn more about the artist's style and techniques, look up the artist: Nolde, Emil.
Nolde’s *Friesland Farm under Red Clouds* depicts a flat coastal landscape with a low horizon, featuring farm buildings in red and blue on the left beneath a dark sky. A large diagonal area of red cloud dominates the upper portion of the composition. The work reflects Nolde’s use of vivid colors and dramatic light effects, drawn from his native Friesland in northern Germany near the Danish border. Nolde, associated with the Expressionist group *Die Brücke* briefly around 1906–07, worked primarily in isolation and moved to Seebüll in Friesland in 1927.
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Emil Nolde was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and was one of the first oil painting and watercolor painters of the early 20th century to explore color.…
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