Port Scene (Hafenbild), 1908

Not on View

Medium

woodcut

Dimensions

image: 49.2 x 40.3 cm (19 3/8 x 15 7/8 in.)

sheet: 54.6 x 42.3 cm (21 1/2 x 16 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Dube 1967, Vol. (W), no. 135

Accession Number

1943.3.5181

Artists / Makers

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (artist) German, 1880 - 1938

Image Use

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Provenance

The artist (L.4337); gift 1918 to the Kunstverein Jena, in honor of Botho Graef [1857-1917]; (Buchholz Gallery, Berlin) [1]; acquired 1941 by Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift 1943 to NGA.

[1] Confiscated in 1937 by the German government as "degenerate art," no. EK 13083 and sold by the Buchholz Gallery in Berlin, one of the agents appointed by the German government's Commission for the Exploitation of Degenerate Art to sell objects purged from German institutions.

Associated Names

Buchholz Gallery, New York
Jena Kunstverein
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1954: German Expressionist Prints and Drawings, American University, Washington, D.C., 1954.

1992: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992.

2003: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2003, no. 8.

Bibliography

1967: Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967.