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lower left below image in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right below image in graphite: E L Kirchner; by later hand, lower left in graphite: Schiefler 267 / 1916; lower center in graphite: 5. Schlemihl versucht mit dem Schatten zu fliehen, dieser rutscht aber von selbst wieder in die Tasche des Männleins

Provenance

Dr. Frédéric Bauer, Davos, acquired from the artist; private collection, Germany, after 1954; (Wolfgang Wittrock, Düsseldorf); purchased 1999 by NGA.

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. 153.
2007
Van Gogh and Expressionism, Neue Gallerie, New York, 2007 (exh. cat. by Jill Lloyd et al.), pl. 66.
2019
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Neue Galerie New York, 2019 - 2020, no. 45.
2019
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, Absalom. Stuttgart, 1980: 28-29.
2003
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003: 12, 25, no. 153.
2009
Heller, Reinhold (ed.). Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism in Dresden and Berlin, 1905 - 1913. New York, 2009: p. 110 and fig 5.

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