Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880 - 1938
Tanzgruppe. 1926.
Watercolor and ink brush.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner. With the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the handwritten registration number “A Da / Be 4” on the reverse. On off-white wove paper by Sihl (with the blind stamp). 36.8 x 50 cm (14.4 x 19.6 in), size of sheet. [CH].
• Innovation and Change: In the 1920s, E. L. Kirchner began to express his ideas in a more abstract form.
• Inspired by the contemporary works of Pablo Picasso and the modern expressive dance that was widespread at the time.
• Dance had already played an important role in Kirchner’s oeuvre since the scenes from the dance cafés and variety theaters in Dresden around 1905.
• Closely related in subject matter to the later painting of the same name (Gordon 933).
The work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: Artist’s estate (Davos 1938, Kunstmuseum Basel 1946, with the estate stamp on the reverse).
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart (from 1954).
Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Campione d’Italia.
Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern.
Private collection, Rhineland.
Private collection, Lower Saxony (acquired from the above in 2020, Ketterer Kunst, Munich).
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880 - 1938
Tanzgruppe. 1926.
Watercolor and ink brush.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner. With the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the handwritten registration number “A Da / Be 4” on the reverse. On off-white wove paper by Sihl (with the blind stamp). 36.8 x 50 cm (14.4 x 19.6 in), size of sheet. [CH].
• Innovation and Change: In the 1920s, E. L. Kirchner began to express his ideas in a more abstract form.
• Inspired by the contemporary works of Pablo Picasso and the modern expressive dance that was widespread at the time.
• Dance had already played an important role in Kirchner’s oeuvre since the scenes from the dance cafés and variety theaters in Dresden around 1905.
• Closely related in subject matter to the later painting of the same name (Gordon 933).
The work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: Artist’s estate (Davos 1938, Kunstmuseum Basel 1946, with the estate stamp on the reverse).
Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart (from 1954).
Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer, Campione d’Italia.
Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern.
Private collection, Rhineland.
Private collection, Lower Saxony (acquired from the above in 2020, Ketterer Kunst, Munich).
