Mausefallenmann (Fallen Mouse Man)
1906
Medium
woodcut in black on brown wove paper
Dimensions
image: 16.51 × 19.84 cm (6 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.) sheet: 23.18 × 29.53 cm (9 1/8 × 11 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Christopher and Beverly With in memory of Karl and Gerda With
Accession Number
2019.156.15
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...