Unterhaltung; Liegende Frau, 1911

Conversation; Reclining Woman

ArtistErnst Ludwig Kirchner, Aschaffenburg 1880–1938 Davos

Oil on burlap

(H x W)96 × 170 cm

Status

on display, room 018.4

About the workThis large-format painting was realised in Dresden around 1911. Like many of his works from the Dresden period, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner gave it an earlier date so that it didn’t seem like he was imitating his French contemporaries. The artist Erich Heckel, a friend, is depicted here next to a female model. The red, blue and green colour zones are probably a consequence of reworking the image. The picture testifies to how Kirchner’s painting style became more angular and his choice of colours more two-dimensional from 1910 onward.

AccessionPermanent loan of the Friends of the Kunstpalast

ProvenanceBis 1938 im Besitz des Künstlers; 1938 - 1948 Nachlass des Künstlers, Davos (KN-Dre/Bi 1a); 3.7.-15.8.1948 Kunsthalle Bern Ausstellung "Paula Modersohn-Becker und die Maler der 'Brücke'", Kat. S. 26, Nr. 50, verkauft; [...]; 1955 erhalten als Dauerleihgabe der Freunde des Kunstpalastes (ehem. Museumsverein) als Stiftung der Lehmann & Co. AG

Inventory number0.1955.5309

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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