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The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Hallesches Tor, Berlin (Halle Gate, Berlin) (recto); Zwei Badende am Strand (Two Bathers on the Beach) (verso)

Estimate

3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

(1880 - 1938)


Hallesches Tor, Berlin (Halle Gate, Berlin) (recto); Zwei Badende am Strand (Two Bathers on the Beach) (verso)

signed E L Kirchner. and dated 13 (lower left); dated again (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

28 ⅞ by 31 in.   71 by 78.8 cm.

Executed in 1913.


This work is listed in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner archives, Wichtrach/Bern.

Dr. Victor Wallerstein, Berlin

Dr. Walter Feilchenfeldt, Berlin (acquired by 1923)

Klaus Gebhard, Munich and Wuppertal (acquired circa 1924 and until at least 1972)

Private Collection

Christie’s, New York, 28 November 1988, lot 41 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Berlin, Brücke-Museum, Künstler der Brücke in Berlin 1908-1914, 1972, no. 2, n.p.; pl. 4, illustrated (titled Hallesches Tor)

Museum der Stadt Aschaffenburg; Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle; Essen, Museum Folkwang and Kassel, Staatliche

Kunstsammlungen, E. L. Kirchner, Dokumente, Fotos, Schriften, Briefe gesammelt uup ausgewählt von Karlheinz Gabler, 1980-81, p. 129, illustrated in color

Berlin, Brücke Museum, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in Berlin, 2008-09, no. 92, pp. 132 and 382; p. 143, illustrated in color

Max Deri, Die Neue Malerei, Leipzig, 1921, no. 86, p. 139, illustrated; p. 140 (titled Hochbahn)

Will Grohmann, E.L. Kirchner, Stuttgart, 1958, p. 106, illustrated

Will Grohmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, New York, 1961, p. 130, illustrated

Donald E. Gordon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Cambridge, 1968, no. 305, p. 89; p. 309, illustrated

Georg Reinhardt, Die frühe "Brücke"—Beiträge zur Geschichte und zum Werkder Dresdner Künstlergruppe "Brücke" der Jahre 1905 bis 1908, Dissertation, Universität Bonn, 1976, p. 171, note 323; republished in Brücke-Archiv, nos. 9-10, 1977-78 (titled Hallesches Ufer)

Exh. Cat., Berlin, Nationalgalerie; Munich, Haus der Kunst; Cologne, Museum Ludwig and Kunsthaus Zürich, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1979-80, p. 199

Roman Norbert Ketterer and Wolfgang Henze, eds., Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Drawings and Pastels, New York, 1982, p. 237

Donald E. Gordon, Expressionism: Art and Idea, New Haven and London, 1987, pp. 135 and 139, illustrated; pp. 136-37

Thomas Anz and Michael Stark, Die Modernität des Expressionismus, Stuttgart, 1994, p. 118, note 21

Lucius Grisebach, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938, Cologne, 1996, p. 80, illustrated in color

Magdalena M. Moeller, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Die Strassenszenen 1913-1915, Munich, 1993, pp. 37-38

Lucius Grisebach, Kirchner, Cologne, 1995, pl. 80, illustrated in color

Jürgen Döhmann and Gerd Presler, eds., Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: die Skizzenbücher, “Ekstase des ersten Sehens”, Karlsruhe and Davos, 1996, pp. 94-99, note 118

Tita Hoffmeister, ed., Werke der Brücke-Künstler, Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, vol. I, Munich, 1997, p. 167, note 11

Magdalena M. Moeller, Künstlergruppe Brücke, Munich, Berlin, London and New York, 2005, pl. 54, pp. 26 and 126; p. 127, illustrated in color and illustrated in color on the inside back cover

Exh. Cat., Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, Der expressionistische Impuls: Meisterwerke aus Wuppertals grossen Privatsammlungen, 2008, p. 28, note 32, and p. 118

Exh. Cat., Davos, Kirchner Museum, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Die Skizzenbücher, 2019-20, p. 134

Exh. Cat., New York, Neue Galerie, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 2019-20, fig. 7, p. 68, illustrated in color; p. 69