Two Bathers on the Fehmarn Coast (Zwei Badende am hoher Fehmarnküste)

1912

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brush and black ink on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 58.1 × 45.9 cm (22 7/8 × 18 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.672

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

E.L. Kirchner estate, Basel (Lugt 1570b). (Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Lugano); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 21, 1983; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1988

  • Baltimore's Print and Drawing Society 1968-88. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 1988 (no cat.).

2024

  • The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Inscriptions

on verso, E. L. Kirchner estate stamp annotated in black ink: F Be I Bf 14; in graphite: K4577 362 / 4209

Markings

verso, stamp in black ink: RCK

Wikidata ID

Q64559857

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