Emil Friedrich Neumann

Rescuing a Wreck, Morsum Cliff on Sylt, n. d.

Grey heaps of clouds drift across the sky above a bleak, hazy stretch of coast. The waves break against the stony beach. A plank and an anchor stick out of the shallow water like the bones of a dead animal. If we follow this trail of jetsam with our eyes, we discover a wrecked ship between the dunes and the sea. But the disaster did not just occur. The inhabitants of the village are already salvaging the cargo and carrying it up the steep shore. A man wearing a sou’wester is standing closest to...

Signature: E Neumann., lower right

Label: [label of more recent date] DAS ROTE KLIFF AUF SYLT [...] Havarie bei stürmischer See vor den roten Klippen. Schaumgekrönte Wellen unter hohem, bleigrauem Himmel. Am Ufer das gestrandete Schiff, das einige Personen plündern. Eine Kette von Landbewohnern, beladen mit Strandgut, zieht die Klippen herauf. Im Vordergrund kleine Betrachterfigur mit Südwester, backside

Privatbesitz, Kassel (bis 2007); MKdW (2007).
Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Sylt in der Kunst, Heide 2018, S. 82 f., Abb. S. 83.

Emil Friedrich Neumann (1842 - 1903)

Rescuing a Wreck, Morsum Cliff on Sylt

n. d.

Oil on canvas

86.7 x 130.7 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 3 NEM 01

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Accession 2007

Not on display