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Lot Essay
This work is listed in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner archives, Wichtrach/Bern.
With its hastily rendered lines, bright colors, and obvious disdain for academic convention, Liegender Akt (Dodo) exemplifies the freedom of expression heralded by the artists of Die Brücke as well as the group's antibourgeois attitudes towards sexual expression. Dodo, a shop salesperson, was Kirchner's mistress until 1911, and greatly appreciated the unconventional lifestyle adopted by the artist and his peers. Her body is here represented with cursory strokes of bold color which border on abstraction, the artist's process clearly visible in the finished work.
With its hastily rendered lines, bright colors, and obvious disdain for academic convention, Liegender Akt (Dodo) exemplifies the freedom of expression heralded by the artists of Die Brücke as well as the group's antibourgeois attitudes towards sexual expression. Dodo, a shop salesperson, was Kirchner's mistress until 1911, and greatly appreciated the unconventional lifestyle adopted by the artist and his peers. Her body is here represented with cursory strokes of bold color which border on abstraction, the artist's process clearly visible in the finished work.