Image: Nolde Museum Seebüll, Neukirchen
Architecture, nature and art were combined into a Gesamtkunstwerk that continues to shape Seebüll’s historic site. In the 1920s, Emil Nolde and his wife Ada found Seebüll as the place for their shared ‘Zauberheim’.
The residential and studio house and the garden were created according to Nolde’s designs from 1927 onward. The house assumed its familiar form after the picture gallery was expanded in 1937.
The relationship between garden and artwork is illustrated by the Dahlie Thomas A. Edison, whose large dark-purple flowers also appear in Nolde’s watercolor ‘Dunkle Dahlien’. Emil and Ada Nolde lived together at Seebüll until Ada’s death in 1946, and Seebüll remained Emil’s centre of life until his death in 1956.
From 2020 to 2022, the Nolde House underwent heritage-sensitive renovation and technical upgrades and was made step-free for the first time. Although much has changed, much remains familiar; visitors going through the house and entering the garden still encounter the Seebüll that was far more than a home for Emil and Ada Nolde.
