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Emil Nolde, artist
German, 1867 - 1956
Zwei Teufel (Two Devils), 1906
Etching with tonal effects on copper plate, printed in dark brown ink on handmade laid paper
19.5 x 14.9 cm (image)
De Young Museum purchase 1964.141.4

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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. ~