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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Kinderportrait K-H. - Zwei Knaben (Köhler-Haußen), 1908.
Woodcut
Starting bid: € 8,000 / $ 9,120
72
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Kinderportrait K-H. - Zwei Knaben (Köhler-Haußen), 1908.
Woodcut
Starting bid: € 8,000 / $ 9,120
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880 - 1938
Kinderportrait K-H. - Zwei Knaben (Köhler-Haußen). 1908.
Woodcut.
Signed and dated “05”. Verse with the stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel estate (Lugt 1570 b), bearing the handwritten registration number “H 98 I” and the stamp “Not for sale E L Kirchner”. One of to date 14 known copies. On firm wove paper. 50 x 37.5 cm (19.6 x 14.7 in). Sheet: 53 x 41 cm (20,8 x 16,1 in).
[AW].
• A print depicting the children of F. Ernst Köhler-Haußen (1872–1946), writer, passive member of the “Brücke,” and former collector of Kirchner’s works.
• In the same family collection for nearly 60 years.
• Other copies of this print are held, among others, in the collections of the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, and the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe.
PROVENANCE: Artist’s estate (stamped on the reverse with the estate stamp).
Private collection, Baden-Wurttemberg (acquired from the above in 1958, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart).
Private collection, Munich (acquired in 1969, Karl & Faber, Munich).
In the family’s possession ever since.
Privatsammlung Baden-Württemberg (1958 vom Vorgenannten erworben: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett).
LITERATURE: Günther Gercken, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. 1 (1904–1908), Bern 2013, CR no. 267.
Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube, E.L. Kirchner. Das graphische Werk, Munich 1967, CR no. H 124.
Gustav Schiefler, Die Graphik Ernst Ludwig Kirchners, vol. 1 (up to 1916), Berlin-Charlottenburg 1926, CR no. H 98.
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Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart, 32nd Auction, Nov. 21, 1958, lot 430 (with ill. p. 77).
Karl & Faber, Munich, 121st Auction, Dec. 11, 1969, lot 964.
In good condition, beautiful print image. Very few small brown spots, as well as faint brownish streaks in the upper left corner. The edges of the sheet are trimmed slightly unevenly. The upper two corners of the sheet show faint creases and are slightly bumped. There are a few faint pressure marks along the outer edges of the sheet. Some areas show minimal wear.
1880 - 1938
Kinderportrait K-H. - Zwei Knaben (Köhler-Haußen). 1908.
Woodcut.
Signed and dated “05”. Verse with the stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel estate (Lugt 1570 b), bearing the handwritten registration number “H 98 I” and the stamp “Not for sale E L Kirchner”. One of to date 14 known copies. On firm wove paper. 50 x 37.5 cm (19.6 x 14.7 in). Sheet: 53 x 41 cm (20,8 x 16,1 in).
[AW].
• A print depicting the children of F. Ernst Köhler-Haußen (1872–1946), writer, passive member of the “Brücke,” and former collector of Kirchner’s works.
• In the same family collection for nearly 60 years.
• Other copies of this print are held, among others, in the collections of the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, and the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe.
PROVENANCE: Artist’s estate (stamped on the reverse with the estate stamp).
Private collection, Baden-Wurttemberg (acquired from the above in 1958, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart).
Private collection, Munich (acquired in 1969, Karl & Faber, Munich).
In the family’s possession ever since.
Privatsammlung Baden-Württemberg (1958 vom Vorgenannten erworben: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett).
LITERATURE: Günther Gercken, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. 1 (1904–1908), Bern 2013, CR no. 267.
Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube, E.L. Kirchner. Das graphische Werk, Munich 1967, CR no. H 124.
Gustav Schiefler, Die Graphik Ernst Ludwig Kirchners, vol. 1 (up to 1916), Berlin-Charlottenburg 1926, CR no. H 98.
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Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart, 32nd Auction, Nov. 21, 1958, lot 430 (with ill. p. 77).
Karl & Faber, Munich, 121st Auction, Dec. 11, 1969, lot 964.
In good condition, beautiful print image. Very few small brown spots, as well as faint brownish streaks in the upper left corner. The edges of the sheet are trimmed slightly unevenly. The upper two corners of the sheet show faint creases and are slightly bumped. There are a few faint pressure marks along the outer edges of the sheet. Some areas show minimal wear.
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