Self-Portrait

1928

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brush and ink with watercolor over black crayon

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    overall: 46.8 x 37.5 cm (18 7/16 x 14 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.20

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Frédéric Bauer, Davos; (Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, 26 November 1953, lot 1948); (Kleeman Galleries, New York); (Karl und Faber, Munich, 28 May 1971, lot 742); (Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 26-28 November 1979, lot 902); (Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 7 December 1984, lot 611); purchased by Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1953

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Gemälde und Graphik. Sammlung Dr. F. Bauer, Davos. Nürnberg Kunsthalle (Munich, Freiburg, Mannheim, and Berlin). Nuremberg, 1952, no. 229.

1988

  • German Expressionist Graphics. The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1988.

1991

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Pastelle. Kunsthalle Nürnberg. Nürnberg, 1991, no. 99.

2001

  • A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 56 (entry by Andrew Robison)(color).

2003

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003, no. 190 (Washington only)(color).

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Inscriptions

signed in graphite, at top: E L Kirchner 28; on verso, in graphite, by a later hand: 280. / K. II 300 / 450

Wikidata ID

Q64559836

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