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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Zwei liegende Akte und eine Sitzende, Um 1910.
Black Chalk drawing
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,400 Sold:
€ 22,500 / $ 24,075 (incl. surcharge)
Zwei liegende Akte und eine Sitzende. Um 1910.
Black Chalk drawing.
Lower right signed. On creme wove paper. 32.7 x 42.8 cm (12.8 x 16.8 in), size of sheet. [CH].
• During these years the female nude was one of the main motifs of E. L. Kirchner and the other "Brücke" artists.
• The Dresden studio was not only the center of the "Brücke" artists' activities, it was also a meeting point for many female amateur models.
• In those days Kirchner also examined the motif of the lasciviously reclined female nude in the similar painting "Liegender Akt mit Fächer" (1909, Kunsthalle Bremen).
The work is registered at the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: Collection Dr. Walter Kaesbach (1879-1961), Berlin/Erfurt/Düsseldorf/Hemmenhofen (acquired from the artist before 1914).
Galerie Remmert and Barth, Düsseldorf (1995).
Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf.
Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 1998, with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032).
EXHIBITION: Galerie Remmert and Barth, Überblick 1995, Düsseldorf, April 27 - July 29, 1995, cat. no. 73 (with illu.).
E. L. Kirchner. Ölbilder, Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf, April 25 - June 25, 1998, p. 14 (with illu.).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina, Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, cat. no. 140 (with illu.).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, until 2017).
Kirchner im KirchnerHAUS. Originale aus Privatbesitz in seinem Geburtshaus, KirchnerHAUS Museum, Aschaffenburg, October 2 - December 20, 2015, cat. no. 16 (with illu.)
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022).
LITERATURE: Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, SHG no. 707, p. 311 (with illu.).
Black Chalk drawing.
Lower right signed. On creme wove paper. 32.7 x 42.8 cm (12.8 x 16.8 in), size of sheet. [CH].
• During these years the female nude was one of the main motifs of E. L. Kirchner and the other "Brücke" artists.
• The Dresden studio was not only the center of the "Brücke" artists' activities, it was also a meeting point for many female amateur models.
• In those days Kirchner also examined the motif of the lasciviously reclined female nude in the similar painting "Liegender Akt mit Fächer" (1909, Kunsthalle Bremen).
The work is registered at the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: Collection Dr. Walter Kaesbach (1879-1961), Berlin/Erfurt/Düsseldorf/Hemmenhofen (acquired from the artist before 1914).
Galerie Remmert and Barth, Düsseldorf (1995).
Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf.
Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 1998, with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032).
EXHIBITION: Galerie Remmert and Barth, Überblick 1995, Düsseldorf, April 27 - July 29, 1995, cat. no. 73 (with illu.).
E. L. Kirchner. Ölbilder, Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf, April 25 - June 25, 1998, p. 14 (with illu.).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina, Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, cat. no. 140 (with illu.).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, until 2017).
Kirchner im KirchnerHAUS. Originale aus Privatbesitz in seinem Geburtshaus, KirchnerHAUS Museum, Aschaffenburg, October 2 - December 20, 2015, cat. no. 16 (with illu.)
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022).
LITERATURE: Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, SHG no. 707, p. 311 (with illu.).
The Dresden studio of the artists' group "Brücke", founded by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl in Dresden in 1905, was not only the living and working space of the young painters, but also a place that attracted many female amateur models, whom E. L. Kirchner in particular sketched in numerous spontaneous drawings. Just as Kirchner's artistic ambitions of these years were directed against the traditional understanding of art, his private life did not conform with the conservative morals of the Wilhelminian Period, either. His studio, which was decorated with curtains and screens, had an an informal and creative atmosphere, and female models walked in and out. In the present nude drawing, the former architecture student E. L. Kirchner not only captured a common studio scene, but composed an almost architectural figure construct from the interior and the female nudes lolling on the seating furniture. The space surrounding the models opens up the very dense representation and directs the viewer's gaze. The deliberate reduction to a few poised drawn lines reinforces the impression of a well thought-out, carefully crafted composition. [CH]
456
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Zwei liegende Akte und eine Sitzende, Um 1910.
Black Chalk drawing
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,400 Sold:
€ 22,500 / $ 24,075 (incl. surcharge)