Sale: 605 / Day Sale, June 13. 2026 in Munich → Lot 126000325
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126000325
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
V. Jahresmappe der Künstlergruppe ”Brücke”, 1910.
Portfolio containing two (color) woodcuts and a...
Estimate:
€ 70,000 - 90,000
$ 81,900 - 105,300
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
126000325
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
V. Jahresmappe der Künstlergruppe ”Brücke”, 1910.
Portfolio containing two (color) woodcuts and a...
Estimate:
€ 70,000 - 90,000
$ 81,900 - 105,300
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880 - 1938
V. Jahresmappe der Künstlergruppe ”Brücke”. 1910.
Portfolio containing two (color) woodcuts and an etching by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, as well as a cover featuring a woodcut by Erich Heckel.
Sheet (wrapper, double sheet): 42 x 55.1 cm (16.5 x 21.6 in).
Enthalten sind: Erich Heckel. "Kniende Akte - Wrapper 'Brücke' portfolio Ernst Ludwig Kirchner". 1910. Ebner/Gabelmann 435 H. Söhn HDO 215-1. Signed and monogrammed in the printing block. On yellow wove paper (double sheet). 29,8 x 39,9 cm (11,7 15,7 in). Sheet: 42 x 55,1 cm (16,5 x 21,7 in).
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. "Tänzerin mit gehobenem Rock". 1909. Woodcut. Gercken 376. Söhn HDO 215-3. Signed. On firm wove paper. 25 x 33,9 cm (9,8 x 13,3). Sheet: 40 x 54 cm (15,7 x 21,3 in).
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. "Mit Schilf werfende Badende". 1909. Color woodcut. Gercken 375. Söhn HDO 215-2. Signed. On firm wove paper. 19,9 x 29,2 cm (7,8 x 11,5 in). Sheet: 40,2 x 53,9 cm (15,8 x 21,2 in).
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. "Drei Badende am Moritzburger See". 1909. Etching. Gercken 377. Söhn HDO 215-4. Signed. On firm wove paper. 17,8 x 20,5 cm (7 x 8,1 in). Sheet: 40,1 x 53,7 cm (15,8 x 21,1 in).
The complete 5th annual portfolio. [EH].
• An expressive and multifaceted collection of three prints by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner with an elaborately crafted cover by Erich Heckel.
• People and movement, dance and bathing—these motifs are at the heart of Kirchner’s three works.
• Other complete copies of this rare portfolio are in, among others, the State Graphic Collection, Munich; the County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; and the Sprengel Museum, Hanover.
PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg.
Hubertus Melsheimer, Cologne.
Olbricht Collection, Essen/Berlin (acquired from the above in 2008).
LITERATURE: Hans Bolliger, E. W. Kornfeld, Exhibition: Künstlergruppe Brücke. Annual Portfolios 1906–1912, Bern 1958, pp. 18–19, nos. 17–20 (different copy).
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Stuttgart 1995, pp. 111–112, SHG nos. 64–67 (different copy).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory Catalog of the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 175, SHG no. 392; pp. 307–308, SHG nos. 695–697 (different copy).
1880 - 1938
V. Jahresmappe der Künstlergruppe ”Brücke”. 1910.
Portfolio containing two (color) woodcuts and an etching by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, as well as a cover featuring a woodcut by Erich Heckel.
Sheet (wrapper, double sheet): 42 x 55.1 cm (16.5 x 21.6 in).
Enthalten sind: Erich Heckel. "Kniende Akte - Wrapper 'Brücke' portfolio Ernst Ludwig Kirchner". 1910. Ebner/Gabelmann 435 H. Söhn HDO 215-1. Signed and monogrammed in the printing block. On yellow wove paper (double sheet). 29,8 x 39,9 cm (11,7 15,7 in). Sheet: 42 x 55,1 cm (16,5 x 21,7 in).
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. "Tänzerin mit gehobenem Rock". 1909. Woodcut. Gercken 376. Söhn HDO 215-3. Signed. On firm wove paper. 25 x 33,9 cm (9,8 x 13,3). Sheet: 40 x 54 cm (15,7 x 21,3 in).
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. "Mit Schilf werfende Badende". 1909. Color woodcut. Gercken 375. Söhn HDO 215-2. Signed. On firm wove paper. 19,9 x 29,2 cm (7,8 x 11,5 in). Sheet: 40,2 x 53,9 cm (15,8 x 21,2 in).
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. "Drei Badende am Moritzburger See". 1909. Etching. Gercken 377. Söhn HDO 215-4. Signed. On firm wove paper. 17,8 x 20,5 cm (7 x 8,1 in). Sheet: 40,1 x 53,7 cm (15,8 x 21,1 in).
The complete 5th annual portfolio. [EH].
• An expressive and multifaceted collection of three prints by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner with an elaborately crafted cover by Erich Heckel.
• People and movement, dance and bathing—these motifs are at the heart of Kirchner’s three works.
• Other complete copies of this rare portfolio are in, among others, the State Graphic Collection, Munich; the County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; and the Sprengel Museum, Hanover.
PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg.
Hubertus Melsheimer, Cologne.
Olbricht Collection, Essen/Berlin (acquired from the above in 2008).
LITERATURE: Hans Bolliger, E. W. Kornfeld, Exhibition: Künstlergruppe Brücke. Annual Portfolios 1906–1912, Bern 1958, pp. 18–19, nos. 17–20 (different copy).
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Stuttgart 1995, pp. 111–112, SHG nos. 64–67 (different copy).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory Catalog of the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 175, SHG no. 392; pp. 307–308, SHG nos. 695–697 (different copy).
The 1910 annual portfolio was dedicated to Kirchner, while the cover was designed by Heckel. The year 1910 marked the culmination of the collective work of “Die Brücke”: their joint plein-air endeavors at the Moritzburg Lakes constituted an act of artistic liberation. In Kirchner’s annual portfolio, likely compiled in early 1910, the new self-confidence of both artists is evident. In terms of energy and the novelty of its motifs, the 1910 annual portfolio surpasses all previous ones. Here, the Expressionist “Brücke” style is demonstrated at its peak.
As if on a stage, two female nudes, torn between conflicting emotions, crouch on Heckel’s cover; the paper’s bright yellow hue casts a spotlight over the scene. In the three-color woodcut “Bathers Throwing Reeds,” Kirchner depicts the group as “savages” liberated from the constraints of civilization. Simplified with basic expressive gestures, the four figures—momentarily frozen in their pulsating dynamics—sink into the deep green of the lake and its shores. The “Dancer with Raised Skirt” seems to be about to leap out of the picture. It is on the dance and cabaret stage that society most readily experiences those immediate and unadulterated qualities of expression that artists of the time sought in the studio and in nature. Dance and ecstasy, arms stretched out boldly, the striking view of the figure from above, and the rapid diagonal axes showcase the woodcut medium in all its magnificence. In contrast to this intensity, in the third sheet of the portfolio—the etching “Three Bathers at Lake Moritzburg”—Kirchner reduces the scene to a few rough lines yet still creates a tremendous presence. [EH]
As if on a stage, two female nudes, torn between conflicting emotions, crouch on Heckel’s cover; the paper’s bright yellow hue casts a spotlight over the scene. In the three-color woodcut “Bathers Throwing Reeds,” Kirchner depicts the group as “savages” liberated from the constraints of civilization. Simplified with basic expressive gestures, the four figures—momentarily frozen in their pulsating dynamics—sink into the deep green of the lake and its shores. The “Dancer with Raised Skirt” seems to be about to leap out of the picture. It is on the dance and cabaret stage that society most readily experiences those immediate and unadulterated qualities of expression that artists of the time sought in the studio and in nature. Dance and ecstasy, arms stretched out boldly, the striking view of the figure from above, and the rapid diagonal axes showcase the woodcut medium in all its magnificence. In contrast to this intensity, in the third sheet of the portfolio—the etching “Three Bathers at Lake Moritzburg”—Kirchner reduces the scene to a few rough lines yet still creates a tremendous presence. [EH]
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