Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Gerda mit Hut
1913

Pencil on paper

51.8 × 39.7 cm / 20 3/8 × 15 5/8 in

Dated also verso with the Basel estate stamp vs and "B Be/Ba 24" also "Vgl. Ölbild Be/Ba 7" inscribed

With the pencil drawing »Two female nudes« on the verso, ca. 1914. A painting with a similar motif, »Portrait of Gerda«, from 1914 can be found in the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal

This work is registered in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive Wichtrach/Bern

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Provenance

The artist's estate (Davos 1938, Kunstmuseum Basel 1946); Frankfurter Kunstkabinett (1968); LeRoy E. Hoffenberg, Baltimore (1988); Private Collection Florida, USA (by inheritance)

Exhibitions

Galerie Ludorff, "Neuerwerbungen Frühjahr 2024", Düsseldorf 2023
Baltimore Museum of Art, "German Expressionist Graphics 1905-1985", Maryland 1988
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Zeichnungen 1906-1925", 1. Juli - 28. Aug. 1967, Kassel
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner", 9. Sept. - 20. Okt. 1960, Düsseldorf

Literature

Galerie Ludorff, "Neuerwerbungen Frühjahr 2024", Düsseldorf 2024, S. 64
Hanna Bekker vom Rath (Hg.), "Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik und Plastik des XX. Jahrhundert", Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Kat. 11, Frankfurt 1968, Nr. 56
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Zeichnungen 1906-1925", Ausst.-Kat., Kassel 1967, Nr. 51
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, "E. L. Kirchner", exh.-cat. 23, Dusseldorf 1960, Nr. 41

About Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was co-founder of the artist association »Brücke« and lived mainly in Dresden and Berlin.