Street Scene after the Rain (Straßenszene, Nach dem Regen)

1914

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

The image displays a series of bold, angular lines and jagged shapes forming an intricate composition. There are curved and straight lines creating an abstract artwork. The shapes resemble a group of people with discernible faces and hats, some holding objects reminiscent of flowers. The figures are set against a backdrop suggesting tree-like forms, with lines crossing and converging, evoking branches and pathways.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 26.51 × 24.7 cm (10 7/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 45.09 × 34.29 cm (17 3/4 × 13 1/2 in.)
    plate: 29.85 × 26.67 cm (11 3/4 × 10 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.683

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 236

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Nachlass E.L. Kirchner (L. 1570b) H 223 III. (R.M. Light & Co., Inc., Boston); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased January 23, 1970; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2024

  • The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Bibliography

1967

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967, no. (W) 236

2013

  • Grecken, Gunther Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik. Bern: Galerie Kornfeld Verlag AG, 2013.

Inscriptions

verso, stamp in black ink: RCK; verso, stamp in red ink: NACHLASS/E.L.Kirchner/ H 223 III [inscribed in black ink]

Wikidata ID

Q76557662

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