Seehorn, 1919

Not on View

Medium

etching on gray wove paper

Dimensions

image: 28.2 × 25.08 cm (11 1/8 × 9 7/8 in.)

sheet: 41.4 × 34.7 cm (16 5/16 × 13 11/16 in.) (irregular)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1967, Vol. (I), no. 238, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2012.92.715

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right in graphite: EL Kirchner; overwritten by later hand in graphite: EL Kirchner 17; bottom center in graphite: Herrn Dr. [undeciphered] von EL Kirchner; lower center verso by later hand in graphite: 9[undeciphered]; bottom left verso by later hand in graphite: 23727

Marks and Labels

verso, stamped in black ink: RCK

Provenance

Gift of the artist to Ernest Rathenau. (R.E. Lewis, Inc., Larkspur Landing, CA); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740), purchased September 30, 1987; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
R. E. Lewis, Inc.

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. (I) 238, ii/ii

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