Description Expressionist painter Emil Nolde (1867-1956) was a trailblazing virtuoso of watercolor painting.
Applying paint to paper with incomparable intensity, he created richly luminous paintings of brooding, romantic landscapes and alienating modern city scenes.
The sea occupies a singularly important place in his oeuvre; Nolde began painting sea watercolors around 1920.
Already in 1921, the art historian Max Sauerlandt observed that Nolde saw the sea not.