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Emil Nolde
Luminous head1917

On view:
Resnick Pavilion, floor 1
Woodcut portrait of a face in stark black and white, with bold knife-cut lines, heavy-lidded eyes, and tightly curled hair framing the composition

Emil Nolde, Luminous head, 1917, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Emil Nolde
Denmark, also active Germany, 1867-1956
Title
Luminous head
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1917
Medium
Woodcut on thick, dark cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 12 1/8 x 9 3/8 in. (30.8 x 23.81 cm) irregular; Sheet: 16 5/16 x 12 11/16 in. (41.43 x 32.22 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.241
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.
  • Reed, Orrel P., German expressionist art: the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection: prints, drawings, illustrated books, periodicals, posters. Exhibition Catalogue. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977.
  • 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