Fehmarn Girls
1913
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Artist, German, 1880 - 1938
Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut in black on yellow paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 43.5 x 37.1 cm (17 1/8 x 14 5/8 in.)
sheet: 51.4 x 44.1 cm (20 1/4 x 17 3/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1991.156.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 219, State ii/iv
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Eberhard Grisebach by 1920. (Alice Adam, Chicago); [1] (Graphics International, Ltd., Washington, D.C.); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased December 22, 1978; gift to the NGA, 1991.
[1] According to a handwritten note on the receipt, this print came to Graphics International via Alice Adam.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1992
Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 66.
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.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: E L Kirchner; lower left in graphite: (illegible); by later hand, lower left in graphite: D 219 II auf gelbe (oberer Rand noch nicht begradigt (III) 1913; lRv//in graphite: Fehmarn Madchen / [illegible]; by later hand, lLv//in graphite: von Ebe rhard Grisebach / am 4.11.20 / aago; by later hand, lCv//in graphite: 230
Markings
none
Wikidata ID
Q74894291