Asta: 533 / Modern Art Day Sale and Gerlinger Collection del 10 dicembre 2022 a Monaco di Baviera Lot 424

 

424
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Plakat Emil Richter - Künstlergruppe "Brücke", 1907.
Lithograph in green
Stima:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,800
Risultato:
€ 12,500 / $ 13,500

( commissione inclusa)
Plakat Emil Richter - Künstlergruppe "Brücke". 1907.
Lithograph in green.
Gerken A 35 III (of III). Dube 456. Stone with signature. Lower left inscribed by a hand other than that of the artist. On thin yellowish poster paper. 84 x 59.5 cm (33 x 23.4 in). Sheet: 94,5 x 64,4 cm37,2 x 25,3 in).
Laminated on canvas.
• Very rare.
• Only four copies of this poster from different states are known.
• Three of them are museum-owned: Kupferstichkabinett Dresden, Chicago Art Institute and Brücke-Museum Berlin.
• Copy without typographic inscription "Kunstanstalt Wilhelm Hoffmann A.-G. Dresden" in lower left
.

We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Günther Gercken for his kind expert advice.

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

EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 1995-2001).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina, Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, cat. no. 125, p. 204 (with illu.).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Hans Bollinger, E. W.Kornfeld, Ausstellung Künstlergruppe Brücke. Jahresmappen 1906-12, Bern 1958, p. 31, no. 48.
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, SHG no. 49, p. 105.
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, SHG no. 674, p. 298.

It seems likely that no invitation cards were made for the larger Dresden "Brücke" exhibitions in 1907, 1908 and 1909 at the Kunstsalon Emil Richter on Prager Straße, but exhibition posters were made, which must have caused a sensation at the time due to their unusual design. With the invention of lithography as a mass printing medium, the poster as an advertising medium gained great popularity from the middle of the 19th century. Artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard and Alphonse Mucha in particular designed colorful references to events in the last third of the 19th century. The poster was elevated to the status of a work of art, and even newly producible paper sizes seemed to set no limits to the medium. The young "Brücke" artists were familiar with the effect of posters, not least taking courses at the Royal Technical College in Dresden with Jean-Louis Sponsel, though without adopting his liking for Art Nouveau in its entirety. Heckel and Kirchner, in particular, saw this medium as an opportunity to attract attention with the use of personal motifs. The poster Kirchner made for the first exhibition at Kunstsalon Richter fulfills this aspiration: a dancing, spinning girl stands for the immediate and spontaneously rendered energy that can be felt in the billowing skirt and the circling vibrations of the background. It is true that Kirchner used the technique for its simpler reproducibility. The manner of drawing, however, the alternation of printed black density and unprinted areas, corresponds to the classical woodcut, the artist's preferred medium. [MvL]



424
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Plakat Emil Richter - Künstlergruppe "Brücke", 1907.
Lithograph in green
Stima:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,800
Risultato:
€ 12,500 / $ 13,500

( commissione inclusa)