Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte: Kämpfe. Qualen der Liebe (Peter Schlemihl's Wondrous Story: Battles. The Agonies of Love)
1915
Artist, German, 1880 - 1938
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Artwork overview
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Medium
color woodcut from two blocks on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
block: 33.2 x 21.8 cm (13 1/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
sheet: 40.9 x 35 cm (16 1/8 x 13 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1999.68.4
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Catalogue Raisonné
Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 265, State b.1/b
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dr. Frédéric Bauer, Davos, acquired from the artist; private collection, Germany, after 1954; (Wolfgang Wittrock, Düsseldorf); purchased 1999 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2000
Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001.
2003
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003, no. 151.
2007
Van Gogh and Expressionism, Neue Gallerie, New York, 2007 (exh. cat. by Jill Lloyd et al.), pl. 64.
2019
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Neue Galerie New York, 2019 - 2020, no. 43.
2024
Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2024.
Bibliography
1967
Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967.
1980
Gercken, Günther. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Holzschnittzyklen: Peter Schlemihl, Triumph der Liebe, Absalom. Stuttgart, 1980: 24-25.
2003
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003: 12, 25, no. 151.
Inscriptions
lower right below image in graphite: E L Kirchner; lower center in graphite: 3. Qualen der Liebe; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Schiefler 267: "Kämpfe" 1916.
Markings
None.
Watermarks
None.
Wikidata ID
Q75424072