Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Lot n° 21

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Self-portrait with model. 1910. Colored chalk drawing. Signed lower right. Verso titled "painter and model". There with the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the handwritten numbering "FS Dre/Bi 7". On strong, brownish cardboard. 59.8 x 49.1 cm (23.5 x 19.3 in), sheet size. [CH]. - Particularly elaborate and intensely colored self-portrait from the best "Brücke" period. - In this size, quality and colorfulness of the utmost rarity and museum quality. - Self-confident staging as a painter genius of German Expressionism. - This work shows the immediate, clearly more original and freer pictorial idea than the subsequently reworked painting in the collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle (Gordon 121, 1910/1926). - Selected in 1991 for the cover of the exhibition catalog and for the exhibition poster of the comprehensive Kirchner retrospective at the Kunsthalle Nuremberg. The present work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern. PROVENIENCE: Artist's estate (Davos 1938, Kunstmuseum Basel 1946). Grosshennig Gallery, Düsseldorf (1982). Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp). EXHIBITION: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880-1938, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Nov. 29, 1979-Jan. 20, 1980; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Feb. 9-Apr. 13, 1980; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, April 26-June 8, 1980; Kunsthaus Zurich, June 20-Aug. 10, 1980, cat. no. 80 (m. ill., p. 137). Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Drawing, Watercolors, Pastels, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, 20.6.-29.9.1991, cat.-no. 25 (m. ill.). Schleswig-Holstein Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001). Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Self-Portraits, Kirchner Museum, Davos, July 13-October 12, 1997, cat. no. 8. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Colored Works on Paper, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 20.5.-1.8.1999, cat.-no. 38. Women in the Art and Life of the "Brücke", Schleswig-Holstein State Museums, Gottorf Castle, Schleswig, 10.9.-5.11.2000, cat.-no. 49. Die Brücke in Dresden 1905-1911, Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 20.10.2001-6.1.2002, cat.-no. 246 (with color illustrations). Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017). The Other Me. Portraits 1900-1950 (From the collections of the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle, and the Hermann Gerlinger Collection), Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle (Saale), April 6-June 15, 2003, cat. no. 129. Expressive! The Artists of the Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina, Vienna, 1.6.-26.8.2007, cat.-no. 142, p. 224 (m. ill., p. 225). Kirchner, Hubertus Wald Forum at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Oct. 7, 2010-Jan. 16, 2011, cat. no. 141 (m. ill., p. 120). Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022). LITERATURE: Lucius Grisebach, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880-1938, Cologne 1995, p. 44 (m. ill.). Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, pp. 149f., SHG no. 144 (m. ill., p. 150). Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Bestandskatalog Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Halle 2005, p. 312, SHG no. 709 (m. ill., p. 313). Bridging the gap: Gerlinger - Buchheim! Museum guide through the "Brücke" collections of Hermann Gerlinger and Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Feldafing 2017, p. 132 (m. ill., p. 133). Call time: 10.06.2022 - approx. 17.40 h +/- 20 min.