Young Couple (Junges Paar)
1913
Medium
lithograph in black and gray on japan paper
Dimensions
image (irregular): 61.6 × 50.48 cm (24 1/4 × 19 7/8 in.) sheet (irregular): 69.69 × 54.45 cm (27 7/16 × 21 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.6700
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...