The Blond Painter Stirner
1919
Artist, German, 1880 - 1938
Artwork overview
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Medium
color woodcut with monotype wiping on japan paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 62.7 x 33.8 cm (24 11/16 x 13 5/16 in.)
sheet: 69.6 x 41.1 cm (27 3/8 x 16 3/16 in.) -
Accession
1989.80.17
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Catalogue Raisonné
Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 406, State ii/iii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Charles Crodel, Munich; (Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 3 June 1977, lot 768); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740); gift to NGA, 1989.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 304-305 color repro.
1992
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992.
2003
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2003, no. 176.
2008
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - farbige Druckgraphik, Brücke-Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 13 Sep 2008 - 23 Nov 2008; Paul Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany, 7 Dec 2008 - 15 Feb 2009.
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.
1985
NGA Kainen Coll. 1985, 18, repro. p.38.
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p.304.
2003
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. Exh. cat. national Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003: no. 176.
2008
Gercken, Günther. Ernst Ludwig - farbige Druckgraphik. (Exh. cat. Brücke-Museum Berlin, Berlin; Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, 2008-2009). Berlin, 2008: no. 72.
Inscriptions
the following all in graphite, lower right: ELKirchner; lower left: Probe; lower left by later hand: 1919; lower right by later hand: R22938; lower center verso by later hand: 230
Markings
RcK
Wikidata ID
Q74884397