River Bank at Elisabeth (Berlin)

1912-1913

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

The artwork shows a series of bold, angular lines and shapes intersecting and overlapping. The abstract composition gives the impression of a bridge over a landscape, with structures resembling rooftops and buildings in the background. The use of sharply angled lines and geometric forms suggests elements of an urban environment, with the bridge and buildings resembling city structures.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut in black

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.5 x 23 cm (8 1/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 42.8 x 34 cm (16 7/8 x 13 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.681

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 197

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Nachlass E.L. Kirchner (L. 1570b) (cut off). (Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett (R.N. Ketterer), Stuttgart, November 21-22, 1958, lot 432). (C.G. Boerner, Munich?, 1959). (Jörg Maass Kunsthandel, Berlin); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 17, 2006; 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) 197

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: EL Kirchner 13; lower left verso by later hand in graphite: 87; 1722; 214

Wikidata ID

Q76557658

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