Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880 - 1938
Dorfstrasse mit Apfelbäumen. 1907.
Oil on canvas.
Signed “E. L. Kirhner” [sic], presumably by Erna Kirchner, in the lower right. 60 x 50 cm (23.6 x 19.6 in).
[JS].
• REDISCOVERED Until 2020, the whereabouts of this Kirchner painting from his early “Brücke” period were unknown.
• PIONEERING An outstanding testament to Kirchner’s bold leap into Expressionism and its vivid colosr.
• MUSEUM QUALITY The comparable painting “Grünes Haus” (1906) is part of the Modern Art Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Foundation, Vienna.
• PROVENANCE From the important early Expressionist collection of Martha and Paul Rauert, Hamburg.
• CONTINUOUS Fully traceable from its creation to today.
Accompanied by a written certificate of authenticity issued by Dr. Wolfgang Henze, Wichtrach/Bern, dated June 24, 2020. This work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern, and will be included in the addendum to the catalogue raisonné.
PROVENANCE: Collection of Martha and Dr. Paul Rauert, Hamburg (acquired from Erna Kirchner in 1918; in their possession until 1937).
Hildebrand Gurlitt, Hamburg (acquired from the above in 1937).
Collection of Dr. Johannes Schürer, Mülheim an der Ruhr (acquired from the above in 1937).
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (inherited from the aforementioned owner, held until 2020).
Private collection, Bavaria (acquired from the above in 2020).
Private collection, Lower Saxony (donated by the above in 2020).
The work is free of restitution claims.
EXHIBITION: Nyare Tysk Konst, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, 1922.
Loan exhibition from a private collection in Hamburg at the Kunsthalle, May 1925, No. 168 (Haus mit Apfelbaum).
LITERATURE: Gerd Presler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Die Skizzenbücher. “Ekstase des ersten Sehens,” 1996, p. 229 (mentioned in Skb 35, p. 41).
Hans Delfs, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner—der gesamte Briefwechsel “Die absolute Wahrheit, so wie ich sie fühle,” 2010, no. 1379.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880 - 1938
Dorfstrasse mit Apfelbäumen. 1907.
Oil on canvas.
Signed “E. L. Kirhner” [sic], presumably by Erna Kirchner, in the lower right. 60 x 50 cm (23.6 x 19.6 in).
[JS].
• REDISCOVERED Until 2020, the whereabouts of this Kirchner painting from his early “Brücke” period were unknown.
• PIONEERING An outstanding testament to Kirchner’s bold leap into Expressionism and its vivid colosr.
• MUSEUM QUALITY The comparable painting “Grünes Haus” (1906) is part of the Modern Art Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Foundation, Vienna.
• PROVENANCE From the important early Expressionist collection of Martha and Paul Rauert, Hamburg.
• CONTINUOUS Fully traceable from its creation to today.
Accompanied by a written certificate of authenticity issued by Dr. Wolfgang Henze, Wichtrach/Bern, dated June 24, 2020. This work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern, and will be included in the addendum to the catalogue raisonné.
PROVENANCE: Collection of Martha and Dr. Paul Rauert, Hamburg (acquired from Erna Kirchner in 1918; in their possession until 1937).
Hildebrand Gurlitt, Hamburg (acquired from the above in 1937).
Collection of Dr. Johannes Schürer, Mülheim an der Ruhr (acquired from the above in 1937).
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (inherited from the aforementioned owner, held until 2020).
Private collection, Bavaria (acquired from the above in 2020).
Private collection, Lower Saxony (donated by the above in 2020).
The work is free of restitution claims.
EXHIBITION: Nyare Tysk Konst, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, 1922.
Loan exhibition from a private collection in Hamburg at the Kunsthalle, May 1925, No. 168 (Haus mit Apfelbaum).
LITERATURE: Gerd Presler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Die Skizzenbücher. “Ekstase des ersten Sehens,” 1996, p. 229 (mentioned in Skb 35, p. 41).
Hans Delfs, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner—der gesamte Briefwechsel “Die absolute Wahrheit, so wie ich sie fühle,” 2010, no. 1379.
