Der Graf (The Count)

Der Graf (The Count) by Emil Nolde

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

Print

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1990.36.1

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...

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