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Even today, Nolde's paintings, which show gardens, flowers, sea views and motifs from life, are still popular compositions. The high-contrast image with the dark, red clouds over the storm-tossed sea unfolds the power of nature. As the son of a farming family, his childhood and youth were determined by hard work and poor conditions.

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From to , at his father's insistence, he completed an apprenticeship as a carver and draftsman at the arts and crafts school in Flensburg. He then worked for various furniture factories throughout Germany and in took up a position as a teacher of commercial and ornamental design drawing in St. During this time he did painting alongside work and taught himself to do it.

From he produced a series of landscape watercolors and drawings. His style of this period is late impressionist and symbolically inspired. From then on, printing his drawings as postcards enabled him to live as a freelance artist. His style is characterized by simplification, with large-scale application of color and a departure from detail.

The name was changed to Nolde in the artist took the name of his home village in northern Schleswig in order to emphasize his connection to his homeland. From he painted lyrical landscapes, became a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Art Cooperative and took part in five different exhibitions until Among other things, at the annual exhibition in the Flensburg Museum.

He accepted the invitation to join in From then on he used a broader, more intensely colored application of paint, thereby creating monumentality, structure and the possibility of developing the expressive potential of the images.