Head of a Prophet
1912
Emil Nolde (German, 1867-1956)
Not on View

Trips to Russia, the Far East, and the South Seas influenced Nolde's subject matter, which ranged from ethnographic depictions of South Sea islanders to religious paintings, flowers, landscapes, and the sea.

Details

  • Artist Name: Emil Nolde (German, 1867-1956)
  • Title: Head of a Prophet
  • Date: 1912
  • Medium: Watercolor on Japanese wove tissue paper, mounted on thin cardboard
  • Dimensions: comp: 16-1/8 x 11-3/4 in. (41.0 x 30.0 cm); sheet: 18-3/8 x 13-7/8 in. (46.7 x 35.2 cm)
  • Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
  • Accession Number: P.1953.297
  • Copyright: © Nolde Stiftung Seebüll

Object Information

[Galerie Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt am Main, sold 1920 to];
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.

From Europe to California: Galka Scheyer and the Avant-Garde

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2003-05-16 to 2003-10-13

Painted Papers: Watercolors from Durer to the Present

  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1962-03-15 to 1962-04-15

Works by the Die Brucke Artists

  • Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-04-24 to 1973-06-03

The Blue Four and Their Contemporaries

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1991-06-20 to 1992-05-24

German Expressionist Exhibition

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1988-05-19 to 1989-06-18

Contemporary German Watercolor Painting

  • California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1936-06-06 to 1936-08-01

Expressionists

  • Los Angeles, Hollywood Gallery of Modern Art (Lorser Feitelson), 1935 to ?-

European Modernists

  • Los Angeles, California School of Fine Arts, 1927-04 to ?-

The Galka E. Scheyer Collection

  • Mills College Art Gallery, 1961-01-10 to 1961-02-19

Thirty European Modernists

  • Oakland Art Gallery, 1928-01-04 to 1928-01-29

The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum

  • Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05

The Galka Scheyer Collection: Klee, Nolde, Jawlensky, Moholy-Nagy, Schmidt-Rottluff, Schwitters, Archipenko, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Feininger, Kirchner, Dix_1

  • La Jolla, Art Center in La Jolla, 1960-07-05 to 1960-08-14

Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California

  • Norton Simon Museum, 2017-04-07 to 2017-09-25

Bauhaus Painters; Spirit of Modernism: Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, Oskar Schlemmer, Alexander Archipenko, Alexei Jawlensky and Others

  • Seoul, Ho-Am Art Museum, 1996-02-08 to 1996-04-28

Permanent and Loan Collection, 1973

  • Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, 1973-01-30 to 1973-12-31

The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World

  • Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
  • The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 421 p. 151
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 400 pp. 396-397

Additional Artwork by Artist

Dancing Girl Emil Nolde 1911
Egyptian Woman II Emil Nolde 1910
Flowers in a Vase Emil Nolde c. 1930

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