Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)

Badeszene unter berhngenden Baumzweigen

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
Badeszene unter berhngenden Baumzweigen
woodcut, 1913, on soft Japan, third state (of four), a fine impression, signed in pencil, inscribed 'Eigendruck', with small margins at the left and right and wide margins at the top and bottom, a deckle edge at the left and bottom, two soft horizontal folds and a few soft handling creases in the lower margin, some very pale light-staining, a pencil inscription in the lower margin, tape at the upper reverse sheet corners, generally in very good condition
L. 17 x 15.5/8in. (434 x 398mm.), S. 22 x 16.5/8in. (570 x 422mm.)

Literature

A. and W.D. Dube, E. L. Kirchner, Das Graphische Werk, Munich, 1967, no. W 226

Lot Essay

Badeszene unter berhngenden Baumzweigen , like Liegender Akte am Meer (lot 241), is a product of Kirchner's summer visits to the Baltic island of Fehmarn. Inspired by the natural world around him, the work he produced is in contrast to the contemporary urban Berlin subjects, the Strassenszene in particular (see lot 242), although one might see an echo of the city in the hatted man, a figure which had apeared in an oil of the year before (see comparative illustration below)

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