Flower Garden, Kneeling Woman with Hat
Emil Nolde
1908
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 64.5 x 83 cm (25 3/8 x 32 11/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Arnold and Joan Saltzman
Accession Number
2020.112.4
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...