Young Woman with a Child (Mädchen mit Kind)

1919

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut on Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 42 x 35.5 cm (16 9/16 x 14 in.)
    sheet: 55 x 45 cm (21 5/8 x 17 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.689

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 396, State iv/iv, Variation b.6

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gift of the artist to the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (according to inscription on verso, which dealer considers to be in the artist's hand); Koenigliches Kupferstichkabinett (Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin) (L. 1610) 80 / 1922 (crossed out in graphite); (Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin; stamp not in Lugt); [1] acquired for Möller's private collection or sold to an unidentified private collection. [2] (Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 1984, lot 461); (via Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 27, 1986; gift to NGA, 2012.
[1] Confiscated in 1937 by the German government as "degenerate art," no. EK 12579 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.
[1] In his bill for the print, Wittrock indicates that the print was in Möller's private collection. The lot description in the Kornfeld sale, however, suggests that it was sold from a "Berlin dealer" to another private individual.

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) 396, iv/iv

2013

  • Grecken, Gunther Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik. Bern: Galerie Kornfeld Verlag AG, 2013.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Eigendruck; lower right in graphite: EL Kirchner 17; bottom right corner by later hand in graphite: No.7E; upper right verso by later hand in ink: [not deciphered] / Kupferstichkabinett / Berlin; lower center verso in graphite: Madchen mit Kind; bottom left verso by later hand in graphite: Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig / H.D.N. Form Mädchen mit Kind / Schief. 368-D; lower center verso by later hand in graphite: 80-1922 / [not deciphered]; bottom center verso by later hand in brown ink: Pr. erworben!

Watermarks

None.

Wikidata ID

Q76557676

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