Composer Klemperer

1916

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on blotting paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 52 × 41.7 cm (20 1/2 × 16 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 58 × 42.1 cm (22 13/16 × 16 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.685

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 278, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist (L.4337); gift 1918 to the Kunstverein Jena, in honor of Botho Graef [1857-1917]; Ferdinand Möller, Berlin. [1] (Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Bern); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740), purchased May 20, 1996; gift to NGA, 2012.
[1] Confiscated in 1937 by the German government as "degenerate art," no. EK 13092 and sold by Möller, one of the agents appointed by the German government's Commission for the Exploitation of Degenerate Art to sell objects purged from German institutions. However, in a letter from Wolfgang Wittrock to Ruth Kainen dated May 11, 1984, he indicates that this composition remained in the private collection of the Möller family for some fifty years.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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. (W) 278, ii/ii

Inscriptions

below image, at left, in graphite: E L Kirchner

Wikidata ID

Q76557667

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