Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Liegender Akt am Strand von Fehmarn
. 1912.
Charcoal drawing.
Dated, titled and inscribed on the reverse by a hand other than that of the artist, there also with the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570b) and the handwritten registration number "K Dre /Bg 173". On brownish paper. 34.5 x 57.7 cm (13.5 x 22.7 in), size of sheet. [CH].
• Intimate, large-format sketch from the sought-after Berlin period.
• E. L. Kirchner spent the summer months of 1912 on Fehmarn with his partner Erna Schilling, whom he had met at a dance hall in Berlin that same year.
• For E. L. Kirchner and the other artists of the "Brücke", the casual nudity outdoors was a major source of inspiration and a characteristic trait of their expressionist work.
• In the same year, he also created the painting "Ins Meer Schreitende" (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart) with a similar motif
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