Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte: Die Geliebte (Peter Schlemihl's Wondrous Story: The Beloved)
1915
Artist, German, 1880 - 1938
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Artwork overview
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Medium
color woodcut on medium thick wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
block: 28.2 x 23.5 cm (11 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
sheet: 40.9 x 35.2 cm (16 1/8 x 13 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1999.68.3
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Catalogue Raisonné
Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 264, State c.2.ii/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dr. Frédéric Bauer, Davos, acquired from the artist; private collection, Germany, after 1954; (Wolfgang Wittrock, Düsseldorf); purchased 1999 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2000
Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001.
2003
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003, no. 150.
2007
Van Gogh and Expressionism, Neue Gallerie, New York, 2007 (exh. cat. by Jill Lloyd et al.), pl. 63.
2019
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Neue Galerie New York, 2019 - 2020, no. 42.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Neue), Neue Galerie New York, New York, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1967
Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967.
1980
Gercken, Günther. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Holzschnittzyklen: Peter Schlemihl, Triumph der Liebe, Abasalom. Stuttgart, 1980: 22-23.
2003
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003: 12, 25, no. 150.
Inscriptions
lower left below image in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right below image in graphite: E L Kirchner; lower center in graphite: 2. Die Geliebte; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Schiefler 266. 1916.; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 23
Wikidata ID
Q75424067