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Seated Woman in front of a Stove (Erna), 1913

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Pastel chalk on paper
67.5×51.3 cm

Artists

  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

    (Aschaffenburg 1880‒1938 Davos Frauenkirch )

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
In December 1911, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) moved from Dresden to Berlin, where he became a passionate pictorial chronicler of urban life. At a dance hall he met Erna and Gerda Schilling, who soon became his preferred models. The Expressionist captured the two sisters on canvas and on paper with almost obsessive energy, be it on the beaches of the Baltic Sea or in the coziness of the studio. This work from 1913, too, focuses on Erna, by now Kirchner’s partner. The casual posture of the half-dressed woman and the wine glass on the table constitute narrational pictorial elements that are eclipsed by the powerful graphic gestures.

IR, 2021

Object data

Artist/author
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Title
Seated Woman in front of a Stove (Erna)
Date
1913
Art movement
Expressionism
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Pastel chalk on paper
Dimensions
67.5×51.3 cm
Credit line of the permanent loan
Private collection
Selection of Reference works
  • Die Sammlung Schedlmayer. Eine Entdeckung, hrsg. Hans-Peter Wipplinger/Ivan Ristic, Wien 2021 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 10.09.2021-20.02.2022).
Keywords
woman/girlportraitdress/gownsitting figureSpaceglassunderware/nightwear

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Nachlass Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Davos (1938-1946); (1)
Roman Norbert Ketterer, Campione, Schweiz (ab 1953-1962);
Auktion: November 1962, Finearte-Ketterer, Kat. Nr. 113 (Abb. Taf. 36);
Galerie Günther Franke, München (o.D.); (2)
Privatsammlung, Berlin (o.D.); (3)
Auktion: 04.12.2002, Lempertz, Köln, Modern Art-Impressionist and Modern Painting-Prints-Drawings and Sculpture, Los Nr. 19;
Privatsammlung, Wien (seit 2002)

  1. Nachlassstempel “NACHLASS E. L. KIRCHNER“ und Nachlassbezeichnung „FS Be/Bi 2“ auf der Blattrückseite
  2. Bestätigung der Galerie Günther Franke, München vom 24.01.1967
  3. Kunsthaus Lempertz, Katalog zur 831. Auktion, Köln 2002; Eintrag auf www. Artprice.com: https://de.artprice.com/artist/15397/ernst-ludwig-kirchner/zeichnung-aquarell/2660460/sitzende-frau-vor-einem-ofen?p=76

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woman/girlportraitdress/gownsitting figureSpaceglassunderware/nightwear

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