Composer Klemperer, 1916

Not on View

Medium

woodcut on blotting paper

Dimensions

plate: 52 × 41.7 cm (20 1/2 × 16 7/16 in.)

sheet: 58 × 42.1 cm (22 13/16 × 16 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 278, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2012.92.685

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

below image, at left, in graphite: E L Kirchner

Provenance

The artist (L.4337); gift 1918 to the Kunstverein Jena, in honor of Botho Graef [1857-1917]; Ferdinand Möller, Berlin. [1] (Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Bern); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740), purchased May 20, 1996; gift to NGA, 2012.

[1] Confiscated in 1937 by the German government as "degenerate art," no. EK 13092 and sold by Möller, one of the agents appointed by the German government's Commission for the Exploitation of Degenerate Art to sell objects purged from German institutions. However, in a letter from Wolfgang Wittrock to Ruth Kainen dated May 11, 1984, he indicates that this composition remained in the private collection of the Möller family for some fifty years.

Associated Names

Galerie Ferdinand Möller
Galerie Henze and Ketterer
Jena Kunstverein
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.

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) 278, ii/ii