Kirchner - Zeichnungen (Kirchner Drawings)
1925
Artist, German, 1880 - 1938
Author, German, 1887 - 1968
Printer
Publisher
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Attributed to
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 Number
2012.92.627.1-19
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Catalogue Raisonné
Dube 1980, nos. 832, 834-847, 849
Associated Artworks
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Front cover from Kirchner Zeichnungen (Kirchner Drawings)
Will Grohmann, Arnolds Graphische Bücher, Johannes Pässler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1925
Title page from Kirchner Zeichnungen (Kirchner Drawings)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Will Grohmann, Arnolds Graphische Bücher, Johannes Pässler
1925
Ornament 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