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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Moritzburger Teiche, 1909.
Pastel
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,400 Sold:
€ 47,500 / $ 50,825 (incl. surcharge)
Moritzburger Teiche. 1909.
Pastel.
Signed and pre-dated "07" in bottom right. On board. 34.5 x 43.2 cm (13.5 x 17 in), size of sheet.
Verso with an oil chalks drawing of two nudes with an African stool in the studio. [CH].
• Sheet painted on both sides: with a sketch of two female nudes on the reverse.
• The stays of the "Brücke" artists on the Moritzburg Lakes (1909-1911) yielded particularly innovative and expressive works of seminal importance for Expressionism.
• Owing to the abstract-ornamental play of forms, the colorful landscape scene of the Moritzburg Lakes still shows hints of Art Nouveau and the Reform style, which were formative for Kirchner.
• In those years the Dresden studio was not only the working and living space of the "Brücke" artists, but also a meeting point for female amateur models.
The work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen, Kressbronn (1959).
Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (with the collector stamp, since 1968: Karl und Faber, June 6/7, 1968.
EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2001-2017).
Im Rhythmus der Natur - Landschaftsmalerei der "Brücke". Meisterwerke der Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Städtische Galerie, Ravensburg, October 28, 2006 to January 28, 2007 (with illu.).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina, Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, cat. no. 131 (with illu. on p. 214).
Der Blick auf Fränzi und Marcella. Zwei Modelle der "Brücke"-Künstler Heckel, Kirchner, Pechstein, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, August 29, 2010 to January 9, 2011, Stiftung Moritzburg, Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale), February 6 - May 1, 2011, cat. no. 79 (with color illu. on p. 47).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022).
LITERATURE: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 33rd auction, May 29 - 30, 1959, lot 380 (titled "Elbe-Landschaft bei Dresden", unsold).
Karl und Faber, Munich, 113th auction, June 6/7, 1968, lot 944
Heinz Spielmann (editor), Die Maler der Brücke. Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 144, SHG no. 128 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (editor), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 303, SHG no. 687 (with illu.).
Pastel.
Signed and pre-dated "07" in bottom right. On board. 34.5 x 43.2 cm (13.5 x 17 in), size of sheet.
Verso with an oil chalks drawing of two nudes with an African stool in the studio. [CH].
• Sheet painted on both sides: with a sketch of two female nudes on the reverse.
• The stays of the "Brücke" artists on the Moritzburg Lakes (1909-1911) yielded particularly innovative and expressive works of seminal importance for Expressionism.
• Owing to the abstract-ornamental play of forms, the colorful landscape scene of the Moritzburg Lakes still shows hints of Art Nouveau and the Reform style, which were formative for Kirchner.
• In those years the Dresden studio was not only the working and living space of the "Brücke" artists, but also a meeting point for female amateur models.
The work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen, Kressbronn (1959).
Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (with the collector stamp, since 1968: Karl und Faber, June 6/7, 1968.
EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2001-2017).
Im Rhythmus der Natur - Landschaftsmalerei der "Brücke". Meisterwerke der Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Städtische Galerie, Ravensburg, October 28, 2006 to January 28, 2007 (with illu.).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina, Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, cat. no. 131 (with illu. on p. 214).
Der Blick auf Fränzi und Marcella. Zwei Modelle der "Brücke"-Künstler Heckel, Kirchner, Pechstein, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, August 29, 2010 to January 9, 2011, Stiftung Moritzburg, Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale), February 6 - May 1, 2011, cat. no. 79 (with color illu. on p. 47).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022).
LITERATURE: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, 33rd auction, May 29 - 30, 1959, lot 380 (titled "Elbe-Landschaft bei Dresden", unsold).
Karl und Faber, Munich, 113th auction, June 6/7, 1968, lot 944
Heinz Spielmann (editor), Die Maler der Brücke. Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 144, SHG no. 128 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (editor), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 303, SHG no. 687 (with illu.).
The classic motif of the bathers became one of the more carefree artistic positions of the "Brücke" artists. In the summer of 1909, Erich Heckel and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner traveled with models to the ponds near Moritzburg, just outside of Dresden; until 1911 he created a large number of drawings, watercolors and, after returning to the studio, graphic works and paintings showing women, men and children swimming and playing at the lakes. The knowledge of Paul Cézanne's intensive, sometimes static examination of this subject was a prerequisite for the "Brücke" artists. However, the Dresden painters transferred it into playful and carefree scenes. With this colored chalk drawing, Kirchner captured the genius loci, the slightly hilly, lovely landscape around the Moritzburg ponds, which has to be considered a backdrop for the subsequent scenes with the models. A backdrop that supports the ideas of an ideal way of life in a poetic space like in Arcadia, in which painters and models play and bath together, a peaceful and joyful coexistence of the small community in harmony with nature. The artists found inspiration in the charming South Seas paintings of Paul Gauguin. [MvL]
11
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Moritzburger Teiche, 1909.
Pastel
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,400 Sold:
€ 47,500 / $ 50,825 (incl. surcharge)