KIRCHNER, ERNST LUDWIG1880 Aschaffenburg - 1938 Frauenkirch/Davos


Title: Balletttraining.
Date: Ca. 1911.
Technique: Pencil on satinized paper.
Measurement: 27,5 x 23,5cm.
Notation: Estate of the artist (Lugt 1570b) verso lower left with the registered number: B Dre/Bc10. Here also inscribed: K2811 and C4957.
Frame/Pedestal: Mat.


The motif is in the painting "Balletttraining" from 1910 (cf. Gordon, Donald E.: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Mit einem kritischen Katalog sämtlicher Gemälde, Munich 1968, no. 172).

The work was first documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern. We are grateful to them for the friendly scholarly support.

Provenance:
- Artist's studio (until 1938)
- Erna Kirchner (until 1945)
- Artist's estate (until 1954)
- Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from previous owner in 1994)

Exhibitions:
- Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich 1985

Literature:
- Exhib.-cat. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich 1985, cat. no. 167, ill.