Am Boden sitzender Akt. 1910.
Pen and India ink drawing.
On smooth wove paper. 14 x 20.5 cm (5.5 x 8 in), size of sheet. [CH].


• From the best "Brücke" period in Dresden.
• The female nude in the studio was one of the main motifs of E. L. Kirchner and the "Brücke" artists during these years.
• For Kirchner, the act of drawing was an elementary necessity in the expression of spontaneous pictorial ideas.
• Instead of proportion, composition and pictorial structure, he was concerned with the immediate apprehension of a moment, which allowed no corrections or preparatory considerations.
• The unusually free, spontaneous drawings are regarded as particularly authentic expressions of the art of drawing in the early 20th century.

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. 149, SHG no. 143 (illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 310, SHG no. 704 (illu.).

The typical drawing is in a condition consistent of the age. An approx. 43 mm long backed tear in the upper margin. Isolated slight creases in the upper sheet margin, as well as a minimal, slight crease running diagonally from the lower left sheet corner to the top.