Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (Peter Schlemihl's Wondrous Story) (Title Page)

1915

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut printed from one block on medium thick wove paper

  • Credit Line

    New Century Fund and Gift of Ruth and Jacob Kainen

  • Dimensions

    block: 29.2 x 26.2 cm (11 1/2 x 10 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 41.2 x 35.4 cm (16 1/4 x 13 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1999.68.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 262

  • Series Title

    Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte: title page [Dube 262-268; Schiefler 264-270]

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Frédéric Bauer, Davos, acquired from the artist; unidentified 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. 148.

2007

  • Van Gogh and Expressionism, Neue Gallerie, New York, 2007 (exh. cat. by Jill Lloyd et al.), pl. 61.

2019

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Neue Galerie New York, 2019 - 2020, no. 40.

2024

  • Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2024, pl. 25, repro.

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, Abasolom. Stuttgart, 1980: 18-19.

2003

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003: 12, 25, no. 148.

2024

  • pira, Freyda.Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression. Exh. cat. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2024: unpagiated, pl. 25.

Inscriptions

lower center in block: ELK; lower left, below image in gray ink: Herrn Dr. Bauer mit / Danke herzlich E L Kirchner.; lower right below image in graphite: E L Kirchner; lower center in graphite: Titelblatt; by later hand, lower right, in graphite: Schiefler 264. 1916.

Markings

None.

Watermarks

None.

Wikidata ID

Q75423972

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