Dancer Practicing

1934

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

The image features bold, flowing lines and shapes creating an abstract composition with figures in dynamic poses. The figures have exaggerated limbs and distorted features and can be connected to familiar objects like human forms in movement or dance. The background uses minimal lines and dots that could resemble a stylized landscape or textured wall.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut printed in black

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 36.8 x 49.2 cm (14 1/2 x 19 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 43 x 59 cm (16 15/16 x 23 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.704

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 649

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Nachlass E.L. Kirchner (L. 1570b) H Da/Be 8. Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967, no. (W) 649

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right in graphite: EL Kirchner; bottom left verso by laterhand in graphite: K-491; 36

Wikidata ID

Q76557719

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