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Art (1900-1945) > Expressionism Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Biography

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Chalk drawing

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Munich, Germany
121002737

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Portrait Elisabeth Hembus. 1930.
Black Chalk drawing.
Lower right signed and dated. With the estate stamp (Lugt 1570b) and the hand-written number "K Da/Ba 9a" on the reverse. On firm smooth paper. 92.5 x 67 cm (36.4 x 26.3 in), size of sheet.

• The work shows Elisabeth Hembus, wife of the musician Julius Hembus, who lived near Kirchner and his partner in Davos.
• The Hembus couple sat model several photographs, drawings, paintings and prints as of 1930.
• The year this work was made, E. L. Kirchner also created the impressive painting "Blonde Frau in rotem Kleid, Portrait Elisabeth Hembus" (Gordon 964).
• A color woodcut that shows Elisabeth Hembus and her husband in an intimate embrace is at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
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The work is registered in the Hermann Gerlinger Collection with the number SHG 804 a.

PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: 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).

"The Hembusses just left, they send their regards. [..] You absolutely won her heart, she keeps asking for you and looks at your picture whenever she is over. She is such a boisterous yet modest person and was quite a neglected child."
E. L. Kirchner in a letter to Erna Schilling from December 14, 1931, Kirchner Archive E. W. Kornfeld, Bern/Davos, quoted from: Wolfgang Henze, Breifwechsel 1910-1935/38, Stuttgart 1990, letter no. 2605.


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