Dancing Couple (Tanzpaar)

1909

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph on yellow wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 44.6 x 36.8 cm (17 9/16 x 14 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1986.95.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (L), no. 120, State only


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Kirchner estate (L.Supp.1570b annotated L 150 II). (Roman Norbert Ketterer, Lugano), Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740), purchased June 8, 1974; gift to NGA, 1986.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 124.

1988

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.

2003

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003, no. 38.

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

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.

1985

  • NGA Kainen Coll. 1985, 3, repro. p.30.

2003

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003: no. 38

2013

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

Inscriptions

in later hand, lower left in graphite: Sch I 150 II; in unknown hand, lower left verso in graphite: K356142 3185; by unknown hand, lower left verso in graphite: C1758

Wikidata ID

Q74875744


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