Self-Portrait in the Studio (Selbstbildnis im Atelier)

1923

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black crayon on board

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 49.8 × 33.9 cm (19 5/8 × 13 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.751

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

E.L. Kirchner estate, Basel (Lugt 1570b). (Roman Norbert Ketterer, Lugano, September 11, 1985, lot 232); (via Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich); Ruth Cole Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740); Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • Ausstellung Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Graphik. Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 1985, 230-231, no. 232 (repro).

2014

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

2024

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

Bibliography

2002

  • Henze, Wolfgang. Die Plastik Ernst Ludwig Kirchners: Monographie mit Werkverzeichnis. Bern, 2002: 199, 205, 354, 355, fig.104

Inscriptions

on verso, in graphite: K 7074 (crossed out), B6280; E. L. Kirchner estate stamp annotated in pen and black ink: K Dal Bi 70;

Wikidata ID

Q64559859

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