Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte: Schlemihl in der Einsamkeit des Zimmers (Peter Schlemihl's Wondrous Story: Schlemihl in the Solitude of His Room)

1915

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

The image shows a person in a leaning position, with exaggerated facial features and abstract body proportions. They have short hair and are unclothed, with colorful abstract shapes surrounding them. The background consists of black and yellow designs.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut from two blocks on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    New Century Fund and Gift of Ruth and Jacob Kainen

  • Dimensions

    block: 33.4 x 24 cm (13 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 41.2 x 34.5 cm (16 1/4 x 13 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1999.68.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 266, State c.2/c

  • Series Title

    Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte: pl. 4 [Dube 262-268; Schiefler 264-270]

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. 152.

2007

  • Van Gogh and Expressionism, Neue Gallerie, New York, 2007 (exh. cat. by Jill Lloyd et al.), pl. 65.

2019

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Neue Galerie New York, 2019 - 2020, no. 44.

2024

  • Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2024, pl. 29, repro.

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, Absalom. Stuttgart, 1980: 26-27.

2003

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003: 12, 25, no. 152.

2024

  • Spira, Freyda.Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression. Exh. cat. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2024: unpaginated, pl. 29.

Inscriptions

lower right below image in graphite: E L Kirchner; lower center in graphite: 4. Nach der Verfolgung des Schattenlosen durch den Mob der Gasse; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Schiefler 268. 1916.

Markings

None.

Watermarks

None.

Wikidata ID

Q75424075

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