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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Menschen und Boot am Strand, 1913.
Watercolor and pencil drawing
Stima:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,400 Risultato:
€ 40,000 / $ 42,800 ( commissione inclusa)
Menschen und Boot am Strand. 1913.
Watercolor and pencil drawing.
Verso with the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the hand-written registration number "A Be/Bh 5". On wove paper. 30.1 x 47.3 cm (11.8 x 18.6 in), the full sheet. [CH].
• Spontaneously captured, dynamic figure study in particularly strong colors.
• From 1912 to 1914 Kirchner spent the summers on the Baltic island of Fehmarn.
• On Fehmarn the artist made important drawings and watercolors, which can be found at, among others, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Kupferstichkabinett at the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin and at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main.
The work is documented at the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: Artist's estate (Davos 1938, Kunstmuseum Basel 1946).
Kunstmuseum Basel 1946, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett R. N. Ketterer, Stuttgart 1954).
Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (with the collector stamp, acquired from the above in 1970, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, June 8, 1970).
EXHIBITION: Das Aquarell der Brücke. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Künstlergruppe Brücke, Brücke-Museum, Berlin, September 5 - November 16, 1975, cat. no. 123.
Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 1995-2001).
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner auf Fehmarn, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseen, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig 1997, cat. no. 66.
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2001-2017).
Im Rhythmus der Natur - Landschaftsmalerei der "Brücke". Meisterwerke der Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Städtische Galerie, Ravensburg, October 28, 2006 to January 28, 2007 (with illu.).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina, Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, cat. no. 155, p. 245 (with illu.).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022).
Kirchners Badende. Einheit von Mensch und Natur, KirchnerHaus Museum, Aschaffenburg, October 16, 2021 - January 16, 2022, cat. no. 23.
LITERATURE: Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 3rd auction, June 8, 1970, lot 656 (with illu.).
Heinz Spielmann (editor), Die Maler der Brücke. Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 257, SHG no. 366 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (editor), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 330, SHG no. 745 (with illu.).
Watercolor and pencil drawing.
Verso with the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the hand-written registration number "A Be/Bh 5". On wove paper. 30.1 x 47.3 cm (11.8 x 18.6 in), the full sheet. [CH].
• Spontaneously captured, dynamic figure study in particularly strong colors.
• From 1912 to 1914 Kirchner spent the summers on the Baltic island of Fehmarn.
• On Fehmarn the artist made important drawings and watercolors, which can be found at, among others, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Kupferstichkabinett at the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin and at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main.
The work is documented at the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: Artist's estate (Davos 1938, Kunstmuseum Basel 1946).
Kunstmuseum Basel 1946, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett R. N. Ketterer, Stuttgart 1954).
Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (with the collector stamp, acquired from the above in 1970, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, June 8, 1970).
EXHIBITION: Das Aquarell der Brücke. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Künstlergruppe Brücke, Brücke-Museum, Berlin, September 5 - November 16, 1975, cat. no. 123.
Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 1995-2001).
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner auf Fehmarn, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseen, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig 1997, cat. no. 66.
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2001-2017).
Im Rhythmus der Natur - Landschaftsmalerei der "Brücke". Meisterwerke der Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Städtische Galerie, Ravensburg, October 28, 2006 to January 28, 2007 (with illu.).
Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina, Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, cat. no. 155, p. 245 (with illu.).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022).
Kirchners Badende. Einheit von Mensch und Natur, KirchnerHaus Museum, Aschaffenburg, October 16, 2021 - January 16, 2022, cat. no. 23.
LITERATURE: Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 3rd auction, June 8, 1970, lot 656 (with illu.).
Heinz Spielmann (editor), Die Maler der Brücke. Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 257, SHG no. 366 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (editor), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 330, SHG no. 745 (with illu.).
For once not naked and frolicking in the water near the coast, a man and a woman, dressed in pants and jacket, are sitting on a piece of rock at the edge of a bay (?) on Fehmarn. Below the steep shore we see a small sailboat, the sails sagged as there is no wind; a girl standing aft seem to make contact with another person on the bank of the calm water. The two scenes probably have nothing to do with one another: in the bottom part children who learn to master life on the water from scratch, and the two people, walkers acting like tourists, taking a short break on the rocks and observed by Kirchner. One can assume that Kirchner did not depict strangers in his watercolor, but rather fellow travelers or visitors, such as Otto Mueller and his wife Maschka, who followed Kirchner's request in 1913 and stayed a few days on Fehmarn. The conspicuously high hat, which Kirchner keeps ready as a kind of identification mark for his friend, can be seen here. Otto Mueller even wore this hat while sunbathing naked and smoking a pipe, as characterized by Kirchner in a painting from the same year. [MvL]
38
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Menschen und Boot am Strand, 1913.
Watercolor and pencil drawing
Stima:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,400 Risultato:
€ 40,000 / $ 42,800 ( commissione inclusa)