Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Will Grohmann. Kirchner-Zeichnungen, Dresden 1925 - image-1
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Will Grohmann. Kirchner-Zeichnungen, Dresden 1925 - image-1Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Will Grohmann. Kirchner-Zeichnungen, Dresden 1925 - image-2

Lot 383 Dα

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Will Grohmann. Kirchner-Zeichnungen, Dresden 1925

Auction 1143 - overview Cologne
30.11.2019, 11:30 - Modern Art II
Estimate: 25.000 € - 30.000 €
Result: 27.280 € (incl. premium)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Will Grohmann. Kirchner-Zeichnungen, Dresden 1925
1925

Book bound in red Saffian leather with black-golden embossing (28 x 22 cm) with a matted colour chalk and ink pen drawing "Sailing ships on the Müggelsee" on chamois-coloured paper 13 5 x 17.5 cm Signed and dated 'E. L. Kirchner 09' in pencil lower right. Copy 2/25 of the luxury edition, stamped and numbered in the imprint, aside from the planned and unexecuted edition of 2000 copies. Verlag Ernst Arnold, Dresden, 1925 - The drawing with slight marginal defects on the right. The spine of the book cracked.- With accompanying cardboard slipcase. - Rare.

With the delicacy of the stroke and its fresh colours, the drawing of the Müggelsee with sailing boats conveys a charming summer scene. As is often the case, Kirchner dated it somewhat ahead of time; in the illustrative part of the publication itself, the work is dated at 1910.
The book contains 100 illustrations of works on paper by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner from 1903 to 1924. The woodcuts were printed from the original blocks. Rarely offered in the luxury edition, by the standards of the 1920s, the work is an extremely extensive publication of watercolours, drawings, sketches, and woodcuts by the expressionist.

Catalogue Raisonné

Gercken 866 II B.; Dube H 355, 833, 835-849

Provenance

Dr. Josef Haubrich Collection, Cologne (label with collection number '385' in the front book cover); Private collection, North Germany