Die Graphik Ernst Ludwig Kirchners bis 1924 von Gustav Schiefler Band I bis 1916 (The Graphic Art of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner to 1924 by Gustav Schiefler Volume 1 to 1916)

1926

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

Gustav Schiefler

Author, German, 1857 - 1935

Euphorion Verlag

Publisher

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Gustav Schiefler (author)

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 54 woodcuts and color woodcuts, 1 drypoint, and 1 lithograph

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 25.4 x 15.3 cm (10 x 6 in.)
    book: 26.1 x 17 x 5 cm (10 1/4 x 6 11/16 x 1 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2007.141.8

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. H. Stinnes [d. 1932], Cologne (Lugt 1376a). (Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased April 2, 1980; gift to NGA, 2007.

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite first free end paper: 420 / xxxvii; upper center third free end paper in black ink: (not described) / 9.9.XII.96.250-; signed in blue ink lower right on first and third tipped in prints: ELKirchner; second tipped in print: ELKirchner 16; all three numbered lower left 1/70; center of page 2 in black ink: Gustav Schiefler [?]

Watermarks

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