Liebespaar auf blauem Schemel. Um 1909/10.
India Ink and color chalks.
On off-white wove paper. 21 x 16.9 cm (8.2 x 6.6 in), size of sheet. [AM].

• Effectively staged: The blue African stool in this drawing stands for the fascination the "Brücke“ artist had for non-European art and cultures.
• Kirchner treats the entwined figures and the exposed stool equally in this composition.

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

EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, cat. no. 137 (with illu.).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 148, SHG no. 138 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 309, SHG no. 700 (with illu.).

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