Welcome
Search: Advanced ImageBase Search
FAMSF imagebase search results

Search Results

 

Image 1 of 1

 

Emil Nolde, artist
German, 1867 - 1956
E.N. (Selbstportr‰t) E. N .(Self-Portrait), 1908
Etching with tonal effects on iron
30.8 x 23.5 cm (image)
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts purchase, funds from the Patrons of Art and Music 1960.72.12

Zoom this image Open Zoom Window

printer, Otto Felsing

Artist Biography: Born Emil Hansen at Nolde near Tondern in northest Schleswig (now T¯nder in southern Denmark) into a farming family, his father a Frisian-German, his mother Danish. Married to Ada Vilstrup, who collaborated with him, printing many of the woodcuts, keeping records, etc. Changed his name to Emil Nolde ca. 1904. Expressionist painter, printmaker, and watercolorist. Most of his woodcuts, etchings, lithographs made between 1905 and 1937. Included in the group of arttists labeled as degenerate by the Nazis in 1937. 1941: forbidden to paint or exhibit his work. Lived at Seeb¸ll, close to the Danish border.~~Reference: Schiefler, Gustav. Emil Nolde. Das Graphische Werk. Revised by Christel Mosel. 2 vols. Kˆln: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1966-1967. ~

Related Keywords
N E Selbstporträt EN Music Art Patrons funds purchase Graphic Achenbach Francisco San Museums Arts Fine Europe Germany Print iron effects tonal Etching moustache man aged middle as portrait self Artist's Emil Nolde German Otto Felsing 3306201406730018 A010930 1960.72.12 AFGA

   Copyright © 2006 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco