Asta: 533 / Modern Art Day Sale and Gerlinger Collection del 10 dicembre 2022 a Monaco di Baviera Lot 400

 

400
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Signet der Künstlervereinigung Brücke, 1905.
xilografia
Stima:
€ 2,000 / $ 2,160
Risultato:
€ 9,375 / $ 10,125

( commissione inclusa)
Signet der Künstlervereinigung Brücke. 1905.
Woodcut.
Gercken A-24. Dube H 692. One of three known copies. On gray cardboard. 5 x 6.5 cm (1.9 x 2.5 in). Sheet: 7 x 8,4 cm (2,8 x 3,3 in).
Verso with fragments of an earlier state of the woodcut "Idiot 4" (Gercken 5). [SM].
• One of only three known copies.
• Apart from this copy, no other copy has ever been offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• The first signet of the young artist group "Brücke"
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PROVENANCE: Private collection Baden-Württemberg (until May 28, 1990: Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer).
Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032, acquired from the above).

EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 1995-2001).
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 Wentzel, Unbekannte gebrauchsgraphische Arbeiten von Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, in: Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, 1968, p. 142 (different copy).
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 150th auction, 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, catalog I, May 28, 1990, lot 228.(with black-and-white illu.).
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 98, SHG no. 35.
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 286, SHG no. 645.

The young artists made signets and vignettes as advertising means in a variety of forms and functions an important trademark of the group. The first design of a signet for the "Brücke" was presumably cut by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. A symbolic, narrative scene is framed by two bars of lettering: "Künstlervereinigung" at the top and "Brücke" at the bottom. The motif refers not only to the name of the group, but also to its reformist conception: a naked female figure stands in the middle of a bridge over a body of water, her arms stretched out into the sky. Two male figures, also nude, sit on the shore behind the woman and observe the esoterically charged scene. This emblematic motif of a figure stretching its arms into the sky is one of the most popular poster motifs around 1900, and the painter and life reformer Hugo Höppener, better known as Fidus, condenses it into his "Lichtgebet" (Light Prayer): A naked young man on the rock stretches his arms towards the sun, embodying all the longings of the German youth movement: Hopes for salvation, redemption and renewal, ascetic celebration of nakedness and beauty, of health, strength and will. In short: the liberation from all constraints, a clear commitment to the longing of the artists, which they will very soon live out in their studios or in freedom and closeness to nature at the Moritzburg Ponds. [MvL]



400
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Signet der Künstlervereinigung Brücke, 1905.
xilografia
Stima:
€ 2,000 / $ 2,160
Risultato:
€ 9,375 / $ 10,125

( commissione inclusa)