A Small Steamboat
Emil Nolde
1910
Medium
brush and black ink on Japanese paper
Dimensions
sheet: 29.53 × 36.83 cm (11 5/8 × 14 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Purchased as the Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann
Accession Number
2016.150.2
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...