Two Nudes

Prints and Drawings

1905

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German, 1880-1938

The year 1905 was a crucial moment in Kirchner’s artistic development. In July he received a degree in architecture from the Technisches Hochschule in Dresden; he discovered and was greatly influenced by the African sculpture in the Dresden ethnology museum; and, with fellow students Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, he fotmded the group Die Brücke (the Bridge), which was active in Dresden and Berlin from 1905 to 1912. The artists of the Bridge, inspired by Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, and Henri Matisse, were instrumental in promoting the growth of modern Expressionism.

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Artist: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Title: Two Nudes
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1905
Medium: Colored chalk on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 64.5 × 90 cm (25 7/16 × 35 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Kunstadter Family Foundation
Reference Number: 1963.557

Una Johnson, Drawings of the Masters, vol. I (1964), p. 35, (ill.).
Roman Norbert Ketterer, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Drawings and Pastels (New York, 1979), no. 14, (ill.).

New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 144.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983,” July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 184-185, cat. 85 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
The Art Institute of Chicago, February 21-October 31, 1992 (installation).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper,” March 24-September 13, 2009, no cat.

Curt Valentin, New York. Sold by E. V. Thaw, New York, to the Art Institute, 1963.

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