Gentleman in a Top Hat (Dr Gustav Schiefler)
Emil Nolde
1911
Medium
lithograph on japan paper
Dimensions
sheet: 70.7 × 55.8 cm (27 13/16 × 21 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.422
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...