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Emil Nolde
Servant1912

Not on view
Woodcut print of a human head in heavy black ink on cream paper, with bold gouged lines and rough texture defining abstracted facial features

Emil Nolde, Servant, 1912, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Emil Nolde
Title
Servant
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1912
Medium
Woodcut on thick tan Asian paper
Dimensions
Image: 12 x 9 3/4 in. (30.48 x 24.77 cm); Sheet: 14 3/16 x 10 5/16 in. (36.03 x 26.19 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.238
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

  • Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer. The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.
  • Ackley, Clifford S.; T. Benson; Victor Carlson. Nolde: The Painter's Prints. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1995.
  • Mosel, Christel; Urban, Martin; Schiefler, Gustav. Emil Nolde: das graphische Werk. Köln: DuMont, 1995-1996.
Copyright
© Nolde Stiftung Seebüll, Germany

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