Woman Looking Backwards, 1913

ArtistErnst Ludwig Kirchner, Aschaffenburg 1880–1938 Davos

Oak, remains of original polychromy

(H x W x D)81 × 20 × 20 cm

Status

on display, room 018.4

About the workErnst Ludwig Kirchner mostly painted and only produced a few sculptures. This standing female figure is inspired by African sculptures, which the artist studied carefully. The art of non-European cultures seemed foreign and exotic to the members of the Brücke artists’ group, who also admired its striking formal design. Kirchner carved this figure from a piece of driftwood he had found on the beach on Fehmarn. The rotation he gave to this “African” figure has its roots in the European pictorial tradition.

AccessionAcquisition 1957

ProvenanceBis 1938 im Besitz des Künstlers; seit 1938 Nachlass des Künstlers, Davos; spät. 1956 Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Roman Norbert Ketterer als Nachlassverwalter; 1956 Galerie Dr. Hellmut Klihm, München, erworben von Ketterer; 1956-57 Richard L. Feigen, Chicago; 1957 Galerie Hella Nebelung, Düsseldorf, vermutlich erhalten von Feigen; 1957 angekauft von der Galerie Hella Nebelung

Inventory number0.1957.9

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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