Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880 - 1938
Besuch der Freundin. 1912.
Lithograph.
Signed and barely legibly inscribed "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Handdruck". On firm blotting paper by Johannot et Cie. Annonay (with embossing). 42.5 x 31.5 cm (16.7 x 12.4 in). Sheet: 49 x 38,519,2 x 15,1 in).
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• From the heyday of 'Die Brücke'
• Very rare. Only three other copies of this print are known to exist.
• The picture shows a scene in Kirchner's first Berlin attic studio at Durlacher Strasse 14, where he lived from 1911 to 1913 alongside his Brücke colleague Max Pechstein.
• The two figures depicted could be Erna Schilling, Kirchner's lover, and her sister Gerda, who often posed for Kirchner during this period.
• In the background, the painting “Englisches Tanzpaar” (English Dancing Couple, 1910) can be seen next to Kirchner’s wooden sculpture “Tänzerin mit Halskette” (Dancer with Necklace, 1910).

PROVENANCE: Galerie Assindia, Essen (with the stamp onn the reverse).
Private collection, Rhineland-Palatinate.

LITERATURE: Günther Gercken, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. 3 (1912-1916), Bern 2015, CR no. 558 (illu.).

Only a few faint brown spots and some browning in the image area.
With mount staining, sunning, and slight staining in the margins. Edges partly irregularly cut, with isolated faint crease marks, as well as a few small, partly professionally repaired tears along the upper edge and a mended paper defect in the upper left corner. Mounting residue on the reverse.
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