The Noldes moved from the island of Alsen to Utenwarf in 1916. The flat northern Germany landscape and the secluded rural surroundings remained a retreat and source of inspiration for the artist throughout his life. Nolde explored the vast marshlands around his home, its barren appeal, inspired solely by weather phenomena, remained a subject that Nolde interpreted with his own sensitivity. The results are exuberant color worlds, rendered on paper in his unique watercolor technique in the way the artist perceived them. Nolde thus lends an unprecedented colorfulness to a landscape that is simply flat and gray-green, devoid of any visual excess. It is the changing light moods of a vast, infinite sky that Nolde unites in a symbiosis of closeness to nature and deliberate abstraction. It is not about reality, but the perception thereof.