Book excerpt: Emil Nolde (1867 – 1956) was a pioneering virtuoso of watercolour painting. He confidently applied colour on paper with a never-before seen intensity, in the process creating pictorial worlds whose abundance of light are still teeming with life today.Nolde's wife Jolanthe provided an eyewitness account of his working method: 'You would think that the material took on a life of its own,... it flowed from his hand.' This book features some 90 of the most beautiful watercolours from the treasures in the collection of the Nolde Foundation Seebüll, including over 30 masterpieces published here for the first time.