The famous "Scheibenbilder" (Disk Pictures) were created between 1954 and 1962, they are considered the peak of Ernst Wilhelm Nay's artistic career. At the same time, this creative period probably was the most intensive one within his entire oeuvre. It is in the watercolors from this period that Ernst Wilhelm Nay was particularly committed to the examination of the pictorial ground, which in the present work underscores the lightness of the composition. Starting from a clearly outlined black dot in the center of the sheet, the colors evolve in very dynamic disk shapes. This sheet shows how Ernst Wilhelm Nay attained a freer, more diffuse brushwork in this important creative phase, and how he arranges the composition exclusively with partly spotted, colored circles and arc formations - completely without the usual strict crescent shapes or precise contours. The color is not forced into a certain form by following art historical models, observing formal rules or artistic schemes. Instead it is allowed to speak for itself in these freely set circles, semicircles and surfaces of varying sizes. Once again, the artist testifies to his extraordinary artistic sovereignty in dealing with color, technique and material when he combines the cool blue and turquoise (as cold colors) with orange, terracotta and green (as warm colors) to create an extremely harmonious and airy color landscape. [EH]