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    Zwei Frauen auf der Straße, 1914

    Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

    Information

    Artist

    Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

    1880
    Aschaffenburg, Deutschland

    1938
    Davos, Schweiz

    Work data

    Material/Technique

    Oil on canvas

    Dimensions

    Image: 121,2 × 90,4 × 2 cm
    Frame: 137,8 × 107,8 × 7 cm

    Signature

    Bez. l.: "E.L. Kirchner"; verso bemalt mit „Zwei Badende in Wellen”

    Accession Number

    0223

    Catalogue Raisonné

    Gordon 369

    Acquisition year

    1981

    Provenance

    The painting “Zwei Frauen auf der Straße” by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner remained in the artist’s possession from its creation in 1914 until 1916. Kirchner gave the work to his art dealer Ludwig Schames, who exhibited it in his Frankfurt gallery in 1916. From 1927, the work was verifiably owned by Paul Westheim. According to Westheim’s recollections, he purchased the painting directly from the artist through Ludwig Schames and it was one of the few paintings in his collection he was able to save during his exile. Westheim, who emigrated to Paris in 1933 and Mexico City in 1942, left his collection with Charlotte Weidler in Germany. Weidler reported to Westheim in 1938 that Kirchner’s work was on its way to London. She had previously tried to sell it through the Berlin art dealers Karl Buchholz and Ferdinand Möller. The painting made its way to England via Carl Ludwig Franck and was kept there by Fred Uhlman, a friend of Westheim’s, until the 1950s. Around 1960, it was once again in the possession of Paul Westheim. The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen purchased the painting “Zwei Frauen auf der Straße” from Mariana Frenk-Westheim for its holdings in 1981.

    Credit line

    Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

    Exhibitions
    • Figures du Moderne 1905-1914. L'Expressionisme en Allemagne - Dresden, Munich, Berlin, 17.11.1992-20.3.1993, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
    • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Straßenszenen 1913 - 1915, 18.6.-13.8.1994, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
    • Von der "Brücke" zum "Blauen Reiter", 14.9.-14.12.1996, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
    • Espressionismo Arte e Società 1909-1923, 5.9.1997-10.1.1998, Palazzo Grassi spa, Venedig
    • Réaccrochage an 2000, 30.12.1999-18.6.2000, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
    • Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
    • Der Potsdamer Platz / Ernst Ludwig Kirchner und der Untergang Preußens, 26.4.-11.8.2001, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
    • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 27.6.-20.9.2003, Royal Academy of Arts, London
    • George Grosz. Berlin - New York, 5.5.-29.7.1995, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
    • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Retrospektive, 21.4.-24.7.2010, Das Städel - Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt
    • Der doppelte Kirchner. Die zwei Seiten der Leinwand, 5.2.-7.11.2015, Kunsthalle Mannheim/Kirchner Museum Davos
    • Großstadtrausch / Naturidyll. Kirchner - Die Berliner Jahre, 9.2.-6.5.2017, Kunsthaus Zürich
    Tags
    Expressionismus Figur Klassische Moderne Stadt
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