Chestnut Trees in Moonlight

1904

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

The image features a landscape with trees and figures. The brushstrokes are bold and expressive, using a blocky technique with distinct color contrasts. The color palette consists of earthy tones such as deep browns, blues, and greens. In the background, three silhouetted figures are depicted under trees.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut printed in reddish brown, blue and green

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.3 x 16.9 cm (8 x 6 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 23.5 x 20.5 cm (9 1/4 x 8 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.134

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 10

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(C.G. Boerner, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased January 14, 1991; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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. (W) 10

Inscriptions

bottom left by later hand in green pencil: Schiefler I S.2, Nr 2; bottom center verso by later hand in graphite: [partially erased] )23-6

Wikidata ID

Q76555599

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