An Apostle Filled with the Holy Spirit
Emil Nolde
1909
Medium
watercolor over pen and brown ink on English typewriting paper
Dimensions
overall: 26.8 x 21.1 cm (10 9/16 x 8 5/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
William Nelson Cromwell Fund
Accession Number
1977.62.1
About the Artist
Emil Nolde
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...