Woman in Profile (Frau im Profil)
Emil Nolde
1910
Medium
woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 15 13/16 x 11 5/16 in. (40.2 x 28.7 cm) sheet: 19 7/16 x 14 in (49.3 x 35.5 cm)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.6702
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Emil Nolde · 1867–1956
Emil Nolde, born Hans Emil Hansen on August 7, 1867, near the village of Nolde in what was then Prussian Schleswig (now Denmark), grew up on a farm amid devout Protestant Danish and Frisian peasant parents. The youngest of four brothers, he apprenticed as a woodcarver and illustrator in Flensburg from 1884 to 1891, working in furniture factories before studying at the School of Applied Arts in Kar...