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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Mitgliedskarte für die passiven Mitglieder der "Brücke" (Prof. Kirchner), 1908.
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Mitgliedskarte für die passiven Mitglieder der "Brücke" (Prof. Kirchner), 1908.
Etching
Estimate:
€ 2,000 / $ 2,280
Sold:
€ 8,125 / $ 9,262

(incl. surcharge)

Mitgliedskarte für die passiven Mitglieder der "Brücke" (Prof. Kirchner). 1908.
Etching.
Gercken A-42. Dube R. 664. Monogrammed in the plate in left of center. One of 48 copies, corresponding to the number of passive members. On copper plate printing paper. 15.1 x 5.9 cm (5.9 x 2.3 in). Sheet: 17,6 x 8,8 cm (6,9 x 3,5 in).
Printed in brown by C. Sabo, Berlin. [SM].
• To date only two other copies have been offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• This is the membership card of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's father.
• Important contemporary document of the artist group
.

PROVENANCE: Ernst Kirchner, Chemnitz.
Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Hans Bolliger, E. W. Kornfeld, Ausstellung Künstlergruppe Brücke. Jahresmappen 1906-12, Bern 1958, p. 24, no. 32. (with illu, different copy).
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 105, SHG no. 50a.
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 298, SHG no. 675a.

Professor Ernst Kirchner (1847 Gransee -1921 Chemnitz) was the father of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. As an engineer for paper chemistry in Aschaffenburg, he was called to teach and do research at the ‘Gewerbeakademie’ in Chemnitz in 1892. In the course of his apprenticeship, Kirchner published several technical papers and the four-volume standard work "Das Papier". Kirchner was very devoted to his son and his artistic ambitions and supported his first drawing and watercolor lessons. Although he insisted on his son studying architecture, he paid for two semesters at the art school of Wilhelm von Debschitz and Hermann Obrist in Munich in 1903/04. [MvL]






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