Der Graf (The Count)
1918
Medium
etching and aquatint in black with scraping and burnishing on heavy wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 30.4 x 22.3 cm (11 15/16 x 8 3/4 in.) sheet: 62.6 x 44.8 cm (24 5/8 x 17 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1990.36.1
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...