Family | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: BR60.11
People: Emil Nolde, German (Nolde, Germany 1867 - 1956 Seebüll, Germany)
Title: Family
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Familie
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1917
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/223245

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Woodcut printed in black ink on tan wove paper

Technique

Woodcut

Dimensions

block: 23.5 x 32.2 cm (9 1/4 x 12 11/16 in.)
sheet: 31.6 x 41.4 cm (12 7/16 x 16 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: in graphite at l.r.: Emil Nolde.
inscription: l.c., graphite, handwritten, German, in artist's hand: "Familie"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Margarete Schultz, gift; to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1960

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mrs. Margarete Schultz
Accession Year: 1960
Object Number: BR60.11
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

From Impressionism to the Bauhaus: German Master Prints from the Harvard Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/19/1981 - 06/29/1981
From the Realists to the Expressionists: Works on Paper by Central European Artists from 1870 to 1918, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/14/1983 - 04/29/1983
32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/22/2016 - 03/11/2016

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