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
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creation date:			1912
creation date earliest:		1912
creation date latest:		1912
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	Germany, 20th century
technique:	woodcut
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Woodcut
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Schiefler and Mosel 110

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CREATORS

* Emil Nolde (German, 1876-1956)  - artist

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Notable Acquisitions
	opening date:   1991-06-07T04:00:00
	<i>Notable Acquisitions</i>. 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
	<i>Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection</i>. 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
	<i>Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018).

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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.”
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Glaubinger, Jane. "Notable Acquisitions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 98
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161319

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