Head of Dr. Bauer

1933

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

The image shows a portrait of a person's head in profile view, along with another silhouette that overlaps and mirrors the head. This person is depicted from the shoulders up, facing to the right. Their facial features are stylized and prominent, with an exaggerated contour of the head and distinct lines emphasizing the features. The person has very short hair or appears bald, with distinctive black lines indicating hair texture. Their eyes are sharply outlined, with an intense blue hue. The person is wearing a dark suit jacket with a white shirt, visible above the shoulders. The background is abstract with a mix of dark shades, primarily purples and greens.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut printed in black, purple, green, ochre, blue, and red-brown on japan paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 50 x 34.9 cm (19 11/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 64.4 x 43.2 cm (25 3/8 x 17 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.138

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 633, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Freidrich Bauer, purchased directly from the artist; by descent, his family; (Sotheby's, London, July 1, 2003, lot 88); (via Frederick Mulder, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2012.

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, no. (L) 633, ii/ii

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right in graphite: EL Kirchner; botom center by later hand in graphite: 1933

Wikidata ID

Q76555610

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