Young Woman with a Child (Mädchen mit Kind), 1919

Not on View

Medium

color woodcut on Japanese paper

Dimensions

image: 42 x 35.5 cm (16 9/16 x 14 in.)

sheet: 55 x 45 cm (21 5/8 x 17 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 396, State iv/iv, Variation b.6

Accession Number

2012.92.689

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right in graphite: EL Kirchner 17; bottom right corner by later hand in graphite: No.7E; upper right verso by later hand in ink: [not deciphered] / Kupferstichkabinett / Berlin; lower center verso in graphite: Madchen mit Kind; bottom left verso by later hand in graphite: Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig / H.D.N. Form Mädchen mit Kind / Schief. 368-D; lower center verso by later hand in graphite: 80-1922 / [not deciphered]; bottom center verso by later hand in brown ink: Pr. erworben!

Provenance

Gift of the artist to the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (according to inscription on verso, which dealer considers to be in the artist's hand); Koenigliches Kupferstichkabinett (Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin) (L. 1610) 80 / 1922 (crossed out in graphite); (Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin; stamp not in Lugt); [1] acquired for Möller's private collection or sold to an unidentified private collection. [2] (Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 1984, lot 461); (via Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 27, 1986; gift to NGA, 2012.

[1] Confiscated in 1937 by the German government as "degenerate art," no. EK 12579 and sold by Möller, one of the agents appointed by the German government's Commission for the Exploitation of Degenerate Art to sell objects purged from German institutions.

[1] In his bill for the print, Wittrock indicates that the print was in Möller's private collection. The lot description in the Kornfeld sale, however, suggests that it was sold from a "Berlin dealer" to another private individual.

Associated Names

Galerie Ferdinand Möller
Galerie Kornfeld
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Wittrock, Wolfgang

Exhibition History

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

Bibliography

1967: Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967, no. (W) 396, iv/iv

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