Round Dance
Emil Nolde
1909
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 74.3 x 88.9 cm (29 1/4 x 35 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Arnold and Joan Saltzman
Accession Number
2020.112.11
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...