Siberian Squire (Sibirsche Gutshernn)
Emil Nolde
1918
Medium
etching and aquatint
Dimensions
plate: 30 x 24.9 cm (11 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.) sheet: 60.2 x 45.3 cm (23 11/16 x 17 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.17.344
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...