Head Waiter in Café

1904

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

This is a painting of an interior space with stylized elements including a bust, a table, and decorative patterns. The composition includes a prominent orange background with vertical wavy lines. In the foreground, there is a table with an object that might be a book, and in the center area, a thick white column with marble-like designs supports a greenish bust sculpture. The painting's style uses bold outlines and flat areas of color. This is in style of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut in violet, orange, yellow and green

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 15 x 9 cm (5 7/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 19.2 x 12.8 cm (7 9/16 x 5 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.133

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 15

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unverkäuflich E.L. Kirchner (described in L.1570a-d). Nachlass E.L. Kirchner (L. 1570b) H 7. (Roman Norbert Ketterer, Lugano); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740), purchased October 14, 1975; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967, no. (W) 15

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Im Cafe I; lower right in graphite: E.L. Kirchner; bottom left by later hand in graphite: Sch I 7; bottom right by later hand in graphite: 7

Wikidata ID

Q76555598

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