From the Apocalypse, 1936

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Medium

etching

Dimensions

image: 30 x 25 cm (11 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

sheet: 52.5 x 35 cm (20 11/16 x 13 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1967, Vol. (I), no. 650

Accession Number

2012.92.730

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

bottom left by later hand in graphite: 639 / NL 579 (numbers crossed out); lower left verso by later hand in graphite: K 8890 / C-3891; bottom left verso by later hand in black ink: C 3891 / K 8890; bottom right verso by later hand in graphite: 8547

Provenance

Nachlass E.L. Kirchner (L. 1570b) R Da/Bk 1. Jacob Kainen [1909-2001], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4737), gift from Roman Norbert Ketterer and Ingeborg and Wolfgang Henze; Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], his wife (Lugt 4739); gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.

Bibliography

1967: Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967, no. (I) 650