Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte: Schlemihls Begegnung mit dem Schatten (Peter Schlemihl's Wondrous Story: Schlemihl's Encounter with His Shadow)
1915
Artist, German, 1880 - 1938
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Artwork overview
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Medium
color woodcut on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
block: 31 x 29.3 cm (12 3/16 x 11 9/16 in.)
overall: 42.7 x 37 cm (16 13/16 x 14 9/16 in.) -
Accession
1999.68.7
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Catalogue Raisonné
Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 268, State ii.2/ii
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. 154.
2007
Van Gogh and Expressionism, Neue Gallerie, New York, 2007 (exh. cat. by Jill Lloyd et al.), pl. 67.
2019
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Neue Galerie New York, 2019 - 2020, no. 46.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Neue), Neue Galerie New York, New York, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.
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: 30-31.
2003
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003: 12, 25, no. 154.
2016
National Gallery of Art. Highlights from the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 2016: 280, repro.
Inscriptions
lower left below image in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right below image in graphite: E L Kirchner; lower center in graphite: 6. Das Männlein narrt ihn, indem es den Schatten allein bei ihm vorbeispazieren lässt, Schlemihl versucht ihn zu fassen. Vergeblich.
Wikidata ID
Q75424082