Lot 116 | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | Absaloms Tod
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03.06.2025 - ca.18:12 o'clock
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KIRCHNER, ERNST LUDWIG
1880 Aschaffenburg - 1938 Frauenkirch/Davos
Title: Absaloms Tod.
Date: 1918.
Technique: Woodcut on Japan.
Depiction Size: 38 x 40cm.
Sheet Size: 44,5 x 55,5cm.
Notation: Illegibly inscribed.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
Provenance:
- Galerie Klihm, Munich
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 1965)
Exhibitions:
- Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013
Literature:
- Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Das graphische Werk, Vol. II - Illustrations, Munich 1991 (3rd edition), cat. rais. no. 364, fig.
- Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 55, fig.
- Outstanding example of an expressionist woodcut that reflects Kirchner's existential crisis during the First World War
- Kirchner uses the tragedy of King David's son from the Old Testament as a modern symbol for his inner conflict
- Exemplary work that contributed to Kirchner's great influence on the revival of the woodcut in art
1880 Aschaffenburg - 1938 Frauenkirch/Davos
Title: Absaloms Tod.
Date: 1918.
Technique: Woodcut on Japan.
Depiction Size: 38 x 40cm.
Sheet Size: 44,5 x 55,5cm.
Notation: Illegibly inscribed.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
Provenance:
- Galerie Klihm, Munich
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen (acquired from the previous owner in 1965)
Exhibitions:
- Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013
Literature:
- Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Das graphische Werk, Vol. II - Illustrations, Munich 1991 (3rd edition), cat. rais. no. 364, fig.
- Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 55, fig.
- Outstanding example of an expressionist woodcut that reflects Kirchner's existential crisis during the First World War
- Kirchner uses the tragedy of King David's son from the Old Testament as a modern symbol for his inner conflict
- Exemplary work that contributed to Kirchner's great influence on the revival of the woodcut in art
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Stock Id: 80374-257
