Details
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
Kopf Bauknecht
signed upper left E L Kirchner, titled and dated on the reverse Kopf Bauknecht 1922, wax crayon on buff paper
16 x 13 1/8in. (40.7 x 33.3cm.)
Executed in 1922
Kopf Bauknecht
signed upper left E L Kirchner, titled and dated on the reverse Kopf Bauknecht 1922, wax crayon on buff paper
16 x 13 1/8in. (40.7 x 33.3cm.)
Executed in 1922
Provenance
Anon. sale, Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart, May 1961, lot 213
Galerie Semiha Huber, Zurich, from whom purchased by the present owner in 1961
Born in Barcelona, Philipp Bauknecht (1884-1933) returned with his German parents to Wurttemberg at the age of nine. He moved to Davos in 1910 in order to cure himself of tuberculosis and shortly thereafter he began to paint in his mature, expressionist style. Kirchner arrived in Davos in 1917 and his diaries and letters show that Bauknecht and he met several times between 1920 and 1926. Indeed they exhibited their paintings at the same gallery in Davos and it may therefore be presumed that the similarities between Bauknecht's paintings and the late work of Kirchner are more than coincidental.
This drawing is listed in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archiv, Wichtrach/Berne.
Galerie Semiha Huber, Zurich, from whom purchased by the present owner in 1961
Born in Barcelona, Philipp Bauknecht (1884-1933) returned with his German parents to Wurttemberg at the age of nine. He moved to Davos in 1910 in order to cure himself of tuberculosis and shortly thereafter he began to paint in his mature, expressionist style. Kirchner arrived in Davos in 1917 and his diaries and letters show that Bauknecht and he met several times between 1920 and 1926. Indeed they exhibited their paintings at the same gallery in Davos and it may therefore be presumed that the similarities between Bauknecht's paintings and the late work of Kirchner are more than coincidental.
This drawing is listed in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archiv, Wichtrach/Berne.