The colours of flowers - Nolde´s garden
“I loved the purity of these colours.”
Nolde laid out flower gardens wherever he settled down. The move to Seebüll in 1927 meant a fresh start for the 60-year-old Nolde once again: “There was nothing but bare green fields around the house. Part of these grass fields was to become our garden. This was a hard beginning, but we had to succeed.”
Nolde based the layout of his garden on the letters A and E (according to their names Ada and Emil). The paths through the flower garden copy these two initials.
While sitting in front of the perennial plants, Nolde did numerous watercolours of flowers in his garden. Flower motives in oil the artist always completed in his studio.
The garden and a large number of its plants still appear as in Nolde’s lifetime.