Portrait of Gustav Schiefler

Prints and Drawings

c. 1922

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German, 1880-1938

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Title: Portrait of Gustav Schiefler
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.: 1912–1938
Medium: Pen and black ink, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: 43.9 × 35.9 cm (17 5/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Stanley M. Freehling
Reference Number: 1965.789

Wolfgang Henze “Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gustav Shiefler: Briefwechsel 1910-1935/38” (Zurich, 1990) pl. 1.
Annemarie Dube-Heyning, Kirchner, His Graphic Art (Greenwich, 1966), pl. 76.

Chicago, The Arts Club, “Drawings 1916/1966,” 1966, no. 49.
Seattle Art Museum, “Kirchner Retrospective,” 1968, no. 94 (reprod.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Face of Unrest: German and Austrian Portraiture of the Early Twentieth Century,” December 17th, 1988-March 31, 1989.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Collecting for Chicago: Prints, Drawings, and Patronage,” June 14-September 14, 2008.

Estate of the artist [Lugt 1570b]. Sold by Lucien Goldschmidt, New York, to the Art Institute, 1965.

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