Kirchner - Zeichnungen (Kirchner Drawings)
1925
Artist, German, 1880 - 1938
Author, German, 1887 - 1968
Printer
Publisher
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Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume, covered in yellow linen, with 17 woodcuts on coated paper (including title page and front and back covers) and three photomechanical relief prints (of drawings)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 27 × 21 × 2 cm (10 5/8 × 8 1/4 × 13/16 in.)
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Accession
2012.92.627.1-19
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Catalogue Raisonné
Dube 1980, nos. 832, 834-847, 849
Associated Artworks
See all 20 artworks
Title page from Kirchner Zeichnungen (Kirchner Drawings)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Will Grohmann, Arnolds Graphische Bücher, Johannes Pässler
1925
In-text plate from Kirchner Zeichnungen (Kirchner Drawings)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Will Grohmann, Arnolds Graphische Bücher, Johannes Pässler
1925
In-text plate from Kirchner Zeichnungen (Kirchner Drawings)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Will Grohmann, Arnolds Graphische Bücher, Johannes Pässler
1925
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, June 23, 1997, lot 529); [1] Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739); gift to NGA, 2012.
[1] The donor archive also includes a second receipt for the same publication from Ars Libri, Boston, in 1991.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2024
The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.
Bibliography
1980
Dube, Wolf-Dieter. E.L. Kirchner: das graphische Werk. Munich: 1980, nos. 832, 834-847, 849.
Inscriptions
upper right on first free endpaper in graphite: 19 original woodcuts by Kirchner / Presentation copy from Grohmann $850, scarce (underlined); lower right in brown ink: Mrs. Bal[len?] / Fu daukbarer (not deciphered) / (not deciphered) Febr. 1930