Im Biergarten (Im Bierlokal)

Details

ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER (1880-1938)
Im Biergarten (Im Bierlokal)
inscribed 'Gruss vom [...]' (lower center); dedicated and inscribed 'Herrn Maler Fritz Bleyl Dresden-A Gutzkowstr. 20' (on the reverse)
colored pencils and pencil on card
5 ½ x 3 ½ in. (14 x 8.9 cm.)
Drawn in 1904

Provenance

Fritz Bleyl, Dresden (gift from the artist, February 1904).
Private collection, Germany.
Kunstantiquariat Arno Winterberg, Heidelberg.
Anon. sale, Villa Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, 31 May 2013, lot 324.
(probably) Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.

Further details

This work is listed in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner archives, Wichtrach/Bern.

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Lot Essay

Postmarked 20 February 1904, the present work is a richly-worked postcard send by the German Expressionist artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner to his close friend and, then, fellow architecture student and artist Fritz Bleyl. The following year, Kirchner and Bleyl, alongside their compatriots Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, founded Die Brücke in what Peter Selz described as "one of the most revolutionary events in the history of modern painting" (German Expressionist Painting, Berkeley, 1974, p. 67).

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