English Step Dancers, 1911

Not on View

Medium

color woodcut printed in black, yellow, green, and pink on blotting paper

Dimensions

image: 40.5 x 27.5 cm (15 15/16 x 10 13/16 in.)

sheet: 54 x 40 cm (21 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 176, State i/ii

Accession Number

2012.92.36

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

lower left in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right in graphite: EL Kirchner; top left verso by later hand in graphite: No.83; #2805; bottom left by later hand in graphite: FH 127 (Seite 59)

Provenance

Botho-Graef Stiftung, Jena (see Dube v.1, p.9; not in Lugt); Kunstverein Jena (not in Lugt), donated 1918; (Karl Buchholz, Berlin, by 1939); [1] (Buchholz Gallery Curt Valentin, New York, 1940). (Helen Serger/La Boetie, New York). [2] (Alice Adam, Chicago); [3] (Graphic International, Ltd., Washington, D.C.); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased December 22, 1978; gift to NGA, 2012.

[1] Confiscated in 1937 by the German government as "degenerate art," no. EK 13082 and sold by Buccholz, one of the agents appointed by the German government's Commission for the Exploitation of Degenerate Art to sell objects purged from German institutions.

[2] According to Ruth Kainen in correspondence with Wolfgang Henze January 18, 1993.

[3] According to a handwritten note on the receipt, this print came to Graphics International via Alice Adam.

Associated Names

Adam, Alice
Botho-Graef Stiftung
Buchholz Gallery, New York
Buchholz, Karl
Graphic International, Ltd.
Jena Kunstverein
Kainen, Jacob
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.

Exhibition History

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, no. (W) 176, i/ii