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Kopf Albert Müller (Plakat zur Gedächtnisausstellung Albert Müller). 1927.
Color transfer-Lithograph, based on a color woodcut.
Monogrammed in the original printing block. One of four known copies from this stae. On creme paper. 112.5 x 73.5 cm (44.2 x 28.9 in). Sheet: 128 x 89 cm (50,3 x 35 in).
Printed by Lithographie zum Gemsberg, Basel. [CH].
• Color transfer lithograph in black and red after Kirchner's color woodcut "Kopf Albert Müller" (1925, third state).
• One of only four known copies from this state.
• Exhibition poster in honor of the Swiss artist Albert Müller (1897-1926), whom Kirchner regularly visited in Davos and with whom he maintained a close friendship and lively correspondence until his death.
PROVENANCE: Antiquarian bookshop of Angela Suelzen, Göttingen.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 1999, with the collector's stamp on the reverse, 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: Gustav Schiefler, Die Graphik Ernst Ludwig Kirchners, vol. 2 (1917-1927), Berlin 1931, no. H 521.
Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube, E. L. Kirchner. Das graphische Werk, Munich 1967, no. H 542 III.
Günther Gercken, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. 6 (1925-1937, no. 1471-1793), Bern 2021, no. 1510 III A.
Eberhard W. Kornfeld, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Nachzeichnung seines Lebens, Katalog der Sammlung von Werken von Ernst Ludwig Kirchner im Kirchner-Haus Davos, Basel 1979 (illu., no. 242).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 358, SHG no. 797 (illu.).