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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Heckel mit blauem Hut, Um 1909.
Color Chalk drawing
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 42,800 Sold:
€ 50,000 / $ 53,500 (incl. surcharge)
Heckel mit blauem Hut. Um 1909.
Color Chalk drawing.
With the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the hand-written registration number "FS Dre/Bf 6" on the reverse. On firm wove paper. 36.3 x 41 cm (14.2 x 16.1 in), size of sheet.
Verso with the India ink drawing "Sitzender Akt auf Schemel", around 1909, showing a female nude seated on an African stool. [CH] .
• Part of the first Kirchner exhibition in London in 1969.
• Painted on both sides: verso with an ink pen drawing of a seated female nude.
• In context of the 'Brücke' artists' trips to the Moritzburg Ponds, particularly innovative and expressive works with a ground-breaking relevance for Expressionism came into existence.
The work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: Artist's estate (Davos 1938, Kunstmuseum Basel 1946).
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart (1954).
Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin (1969-1971).
Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 1971, with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032).
EXHIBITION: E. L. Kirchner zum fünfundzwanzigsten Todestag, Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin, June 18 - Ocotber 17, 1963, cat. no. 56 (with the title "Exote auf gelber Decke").
Kirchner 1880-1938. Oils, Watercolors, Drawings and Graphics, Marlborough Fine Art, London, June-July 1969, cat. no. 25 (with the title "Exote auf gelber Decke", with illu.).
Fünfzig Jahre Galerie Nierendorf 1920-1970. Rückblick, Dokumentation (anniversary exhibition), Berlin 1970, cat. no. 453 (with illu.).
Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 1995-2001).
Die Brücke in Dresden 1905-1911, Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Ocotber 20, 2001 - January 6, 2002, cat. no. 300 (with color illu.).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2001-2017).
Das andere Ich. Porträts 1900-1950. Aus den Sammlungen der Staatlichen Galerie Moritzburg, Halle, und der Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle (Saale), April 6 - June 15, 2003, cat. mo. 128.
Die Brücke und die Moderne 1904-1914, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, October 17, 2004 - January 23, 2005, cat. no. 136 (with illu.).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, cat. no. 132 (with illu.).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022).
Kirchners Badende. Einheit von Mensch und Natur, KirchnerHAUS Museum, Aschaffenburg, October 16, 2021 - January 16, 2022, cat. no. 6 (with illu.).
LITERATURE: Künstler der Brücke an den Moritzburger Seen 1909-1911. Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Künstlergruppe Brücke, Brücke-Museum Berlin, October 1 - December 15, 1970, p. 20 (with illu. no. 13).
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 144, SHG no. 129 (with illu. on p. 145).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 303, SHG no. 688 (with illu.).
Color Chalk drawing.
With the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the hand-written registration number "FS Dre/Bf 6" on the reverse. On firm wove paper. 36.3 x 41 cm (14.2 x 16.1 in), size of sheet.
Verso with the India ink drawing "Sitzender Akt auf Schemel", around 1909, showing a female nude seated on an African stool. [CH] .
• Part of the first Kirchner exhibition in London in 1969.
• Painted on both sides: verso with an ink pen drawing of a seated female nude.
• In context of the 'Brücke' artists' trips to the Moritzburg Ponds, particularly innovative and expressive works with a ground-breaking relevance for Expressionism came into existence.
The work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: Artist's estate (Davos 1938, Kunstmuseum Basel 1946).
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart (1954).
Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin (1969-1971).
Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 1971, with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032).
EXHIBITION: E. L. Kirchner zum fünfundzwanzigsten Todestag, Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin, June 18 - Ocotber 17, 1963, cat. no. 56 (with the title "Exote auf gelber Decke").
Kirchner 1880-1938. Oils, Watercolors, Drawings and Graphics, Marlborough Fine Art, London, June-July 1969, cat. no. 25 (with the title "Exote auf gelber Decke", with illu.).
Fünfzig Jahre Galerie Nierendorf 1920-1970. Rückblick, Dokumentation (anniversary exhibition), Berlin 1970, cat. no. 453 (with illu.).
Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 1995-2001).
Die Brücke in Dresden 1905-1911, Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Ocotber 20, 2001 - January 6, 2002, cat. no. 300 (with color illu.).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2001-2017).
Das andere Ich. Porträts 1900-1950. Aus den Sammlungen der Staatlichen Galerie Moritzburg, Halle, und der Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle (Saale), April 6 - June 15, 2003, cat. mo. 128.
Die Brücke und die Moderne 1904-1914, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, October 17, 2004 - January 23, 2005, cat. no. 136 (with illu.).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, cat. no. 132 (with illu.).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022).
Kirchners Badende. Einheit von Mensch und Natur, KirchnerHAUS Museum, Aschaffenburg, October 16, 2021 - January 16, 2022, cat. no. 6 (with illu.).
LITERATURE: Künstler der Brücke an den Moritzburger Seen 1909-1911. Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Künstlergruppe Brücke, Brücke-Museum Berlin, October 1 - December 15, 1970, p. 20 (with illu. no. 13).
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 144, SHG no. 129 (with illu. on p. 145).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 303, SHG no. 688 (with illu.).
E. L. Kirchner founded the artist group "Brücke" together with Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl as early as in 1905. Rejecting classical academy art studies, the friends and former architecture students studied the modern art of their time. As self-taught artists they devoted themselves to the pure study of nature, without being influenced by traditional academic teachings. In this so important, trend-setting time - the birth of Expressionism - the focus of the young painters was on the depiction of the human being. Thus the reverse of the sheet also shows a sketch of a female nude sitting on an African stool (leopard stool from the estate of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Bamileke, Babanki-Tungo region, Cameroon, before 1910, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur). It was both in the studio in Dresden-Friedrichstadt as well as in the great outdoors that the artists created the fast, dynamic drawings, especially the nude studies. In 1909 Kirchner and his artist colleagues spent the long summer days at the Moritzburg Ponds near Dresden for the first time. He sketched naked bathers rollicking in the water in natural poses with the same creative urge as he did in his Dresden studio. In this drawing Kirchner eternalized the easiness of the natural nudity of his artist colleague Erich Heckel, who wears nothing but a hat sitting on a blanket in the light green grass with his legs crossed. Kirchner aptly reproduces his friend's facial features, adds a splash of color in the form of a bright blue summer hat, and hints at a bit of vegetation in the upper right corner. In these very years the plein-air nude became one of the most important sources of inspiration for both "Brücke" artists. Today it is considered one of the most characteristic motifs of their expressionist creation. [CH]
480
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Heckel mit blauem Hut, Um 1909.
Color Chalk drawing
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 42,800 Sold:
€ 50,000 / $ 53,500 (incl. surcharge)