Jakob Bosshart: Neben der Heerstrasse (Jakob Bosshart: Near Main Street)

1922

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

This is a drawing of a book cover with a red and black color scheme featuring stylized figures and text. The cover presents a composition of geometric and abstract shapes, alongside blocky, stylized figures. There is an angular design on the top section of the cover, and the title "Neben der Heerstrasse" is displayed in thick, black letters. The full title on the right side reads "Erzählungen von Jakob Bosshart." The style may resonate with early 20th-century graphic design movements.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut proof on red paper for the dust jacket

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.3 x 37.3 cm (8 x 14 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.692

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 808, State iv/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(August Laube, Zurich); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739), purchased September 30, 2002; 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) 808, iv/iv

Inscriptions

bottom right verso by later hand in graphite: 38085

Wikidata ID

Q76557682

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