Five Women on the Street

1914

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on heavy wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 48.5 x 37 cm (19 1/8 x 14 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 52 x 39 cm (20 1/2 x 15 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.46.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 240, State ii/ii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified private collection, Berlin; (Wolfgang Wittrock, Düsseldorf). (R.M. Light, & Co., Boston); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased February 19, 1976; gift to NGA, 1985.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1986

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 1986.

1992

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992.

1993

  • Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993-1994, no. 112, pl. 93.

2003

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003, no. 114, as Five Women on the Street.

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.

1985

  • NGA Kainen Coll. 1985, 14, repro. p.44.

1992

  • National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, D.C., 1992: 324, repro.

2003

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003: 43, no. 114.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: E L Kirchner

Wikidata ID

Q74067502


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