Street Scene with an Omnibus, 1914

Not on View

Medium

drypoint and etching with tonal biting

Dimensions

overall: 27.2 x 23.3 cm (10 11/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
image: 27 x 23.1 cm (10 5/8 x 9 1/8 in.)

sheet: 37.3 x 27.3 cm (14 11/16 x 10 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1967, Vol. (I), no. 186, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2012.92.45

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .

Inscription

lower left in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right in graphite: EL Kirchner; partially overwritten by later hand in graphite: er 13; bottom left by later hand in blue crayon: 181; lower left verso by later hand in graphite: K 9531 9188; bottom right verso by later hand in graphite: Strasse auf Omnibus EL Kirchner / Kaltnadel Aetzung 13

Provenance

Nachlass E.L. Kirchner (L. 1570b) R 181 II. (Alice Adams, Ltd., Chicago); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 5, 2002; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Adam, Alice
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.

Exhibition History

2003: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880-1938, NGA, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003, no.119.

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, no. (I) 186, ii/ii