Fishing Steamer (Fischdampfer)
Emil Nolde
1910
Medium
woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 30.32 × 38.58 cm (11 15/16 × 15 3/16 in.) sheet: 39.69 × 48.58 cm (15 5/8 × 19 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Epstein Family Fund
Accession Number
1979.18.1
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...