Naked Girl on a Carpet (Nacktes Mädchen auf Teppich)

1924

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

The image contains bold, angular lines and geometric shapes forming an abstract representation of a human figure with raised arms. The composition is stylized and fragmented, resembling interconnected shapes and lines. The figure is set against intersecting lines and angular patterns, with a smaller abstract figure beside it. Both figures stand on a patterned floor design that mimics tiles or interlocking bricks.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on yellow Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 60 × 35.9 cm (23 5/8 × 14 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.694

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 524, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner [1880-1938], Berlin and Davos (Lugt 1570b). (Hom Gallery, Washington, D.C.); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased February 28, 1989; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2024

  • The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Bibliography

1967

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967, no. (W) 524, ii/ii

2013

  • Grecken, Gunther Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik. Bern: Galerie Kornfeld Verlag AG, 2013.

Inscriptions

below image, in graphite, at right: E L Kirchner; below image, in graphite, at left: Eigen druck

Wikidata ID

Q76557688

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