Men Splashing in the Reeds (Sich Spritzende Männer im Schilf)

1910

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph on yellow wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 27.9 × 37.7 cm (11 × 14 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 31 × 43 cm (12 3/16 × 16 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.734

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (L), no. 194

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Botho-Graef Stiftung, Jena (upper left, see Dube v.1, p.9; not in Lugt); Kunstverein Jena, donated 1918 (lower left, not in Lugt). (Bernhard Böhmer, Güstrow, Germany, 1939); [1] by descent, Wilma Zelck, Rostock, Berlin, Hamburg, 1945; (Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart, November 26, 1952, lot 1555). (Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart, May 5, 1961, lot 825). (Galerie Kornfeld & Cie, June 25, 1999, lot 69). (Kunsthandel Wolfgang Wittrock, Düsseldorf). (Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 17, 2006; gift to NGA, 2012.
[1] Confiscated in 1937 by the German government as "degenerate art," no. EK 13140 and sold by Böhmer, one of the agents appointed by the German government's Commission for the Exploitation of Degenerate Art to sell objects purged from German institutions.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

2024

  • The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Bibliography

1967

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967, no. (L) 194

2013

  • Grecken, Gunther Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik. Bern: Galerie Kornfeld Verlag AG, 2013.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Hand druck; lower right in graphite: E.L. Kirchner; upper left verso by later hand in graphite: not deciphered; bottom left verso by later hand in graphite: K:L 132 (S. 153); bottom right verso by later hand in graphite: ka (possible collector's mark)

Wikidata ID

Q76557803

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