id: 155371 accession number: 1990.12 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.12 updated: 2020-11-04 21:32:28.550000 Prophet, 1912. Emil Nolde (German, 1876-1956). Woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1990.12 title: Prophet title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1912 creation date earliest: 1912 creation date latest: 1912 current location: creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, 20th century technique: woodcut department: Prints collection: PR - Woodcut type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Schiefler and Mosel 110 --- CREATORS * Emil Nolde (German, 1876-1956) - artist --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Notable Acquisitions opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Notable Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991). title: Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection opening date: 2003-08-17T00:00:00 Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 17-November 9, 2003). title: Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper opening date: 2018-01-14T05:00:00 Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Emil Nolde began making religious-themed prints after suffering from a severe illness in 1909. This image of a prophet presents a gaunt, ascetic type with an elongated face and high cheekbones. The block was heavily inked and printed by hand. To create the texture on the hollow cheeks, the block was printed without ink, which embossed the paper. The contemporary critic Gustav Schiefler wrote of this image: “Everything: beard, hair, background lines, appear in him to be reflected from an inner fire.” --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Glaubinger, Jane. "Notable Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 98 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161319 --- IMAGES