Street Scene with an Omnibus

1914

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint and etching with tonal biting

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    overall: 27.2 x 23.3 cm (10 11/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
    image: 27 x 23.1 cm (10 5/8 x 9 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 37.3 x 27.3 cm (14 11/16 x 10 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.45

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (I), no. 186, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Nachlass E.L. Kirchner (L. 1570b) R 181 II. (Alice Adams, Ltd., Chicago); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 5, 2002; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2003

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880-1938, NGA, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003, no.119.

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

1967

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967, no. (I) 186, ii/ii

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right in graphite: EL Kirchner; partially overwritten by later hand in graphite: er 13; bottom left by later hand in blue crayon: 181; lower left verso by later hand in graphite: K 9531 9188; bottom right verso by later hand in graphite: Strasse auf Omnibus EL Kirchner / Kaltnadel Aetzung 13

Wikidata ID

Q76339073

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