Fehmarnmädchen. 1913.
Woodcut.
Gercken 614 II (of IV). Dube H 219 II (of IV). Schiefler H 210. Belatedly signed and inscribed "Eigendruck" by Erna Kirchner. One of twelve known copies from this state and one of a total of 19 copies. On machine-made laid paper. 43.7 x 37.5 cm (17.2 x 14.7 in). Sheet: 56,1 x 42 cm (22,1 x 16,5 in).

• Hand printed by the artist.
• Expressive woodcut from the sought-after Berlin years.
• Between 1908 and 1914, Kirchner spent the summer months ion the Baltic island of Fehmarn.
• According to Kirchner, he made works of "an absolute maturity" in the summers of 1912 to 1914.
• Frieda and Dora Lüthmann, daughters of the Staberhuk lighthouse keeper Ernst Friedrich Lüthmann, with whom Kirchner stayed on Fehmarn between 1912 and 1914, posed for this woodcut.
• Seven copies of this expressive woodcut are museum-owned: in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, the Folkwang Museum, Essen, the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, München, the Brücke-Museum, Berlin and the mpk / Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern.

PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 258, SHG no. 368 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 331, SHG no. 747 (with illu.).