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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Die Mulde bei Lichtenwalde, Um 1903/20.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 44,000 Sold:
€ 92,500 / $ 101,750 (incl. surcharge)
Die Mulde bei Lichtenwalde. Um 1903/20.
Oil on canvas.
Gordon 2. Verso titled, dated "1896" and incribed "als Schüler gemalt" (painted as student). Here also with an estate stamp inscribed "Dre/Aa 1". 19.5 x 27.2 cm (7.6 x 10.7 in).
• Kirchner's first landscape painting
• Earliest painting from Kirchner ever offered in an auction.
This work is documented at the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: Artist's estate
Private collection Southern Germany.
EXHIBITION: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1889-1938, Kunsthaus Zürich, March 29 - May 4, 1952, cat. no. 1 (there dated 1896)
Braith-Mali-Museum, Biberach (permanent loan until January 2019).
LITERATURE: Ruth Zihlmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner und das Selbstbildnis. Zwischen Selbstdifinition und öffentlicher Präsentation. Bern, 1997, illu. 65.
Uwe Degreif, Frank Brunecker (editor), E. L. Kirchner im Braith-Mali-Museum Biberach, Biberach 2004, pp. 20ff.
Oil on canvas.
Gordon 2. Verso titled, dated "1896" and incribed "als Schüler gemalt" (painted as student). Here also with an estate stamp inscribed "Dre/Aa 1". 19.5 x 27.2 cm (7.6 x 10.7 in).
• Kirchner's first landscape painting
• Earliest painting from Kirchner ever offered in an auction.
This work is documented at the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: Artist's estate
Private collection Southern Germany.
EXHIBITION: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1889-1938, Kunsthaus Zürich, March 29 - May 4, 1952, cat. no. 1 (there dated 1896)
Braith-Mali-Museum, Biberach (permanent loan until January 2019).
LITERATURE: Ruth Zihlmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner und das Selbstbildnis. Zwischen Selbstdifinition und öffentlicher Präsentation. Bern, 1997, illu. 65.
Uwe Degreif, Frank Brunecker (editor), E. L. Kirchner im Braith-Mali-Museum Biberach, Biberach 2004, pp. 20ff.
163
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Die Mulde bei Lichtenwalde, Um 1903/20.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 40,000 / $ 44,000 Sold:
€ 92,500 / $ 101,750 (incl. surcharge)