Portrait of Gerda
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| Portrait of Gerda |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , 1914 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 70 × 57 cm |
| From the Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
Portrait of Gerda (alternatively: Portrait of Gerda ) is a painting by the German expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) from 1914. It has been part of the collection of the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal since 1953 .
description
Kirchner's work is executed in oil on canvas and has the format 70 × 57 cm. It has inventory number G 0755 in the Von der Heydt Museum collection. The work is labeled "EL Kirchner Kopf Gerda 1914" on the back. There is also an estate stamp with the number Be / Ba 7.
The work shows a half-length portrait of a young woman who is fashionably dressed in the urban style of the 1910s. The face shows strong contours in the drawing, with a pronounced mouth, red lips, a pronounced chin and black make-up eyes. Her short hairstyle is indicated as a pony hairstyle over the forehead. She is dressed in a black modern hat, a jacket with a fur collar and underneath a yellow-orange blouse. The scene seems to represent a dance, because in the background a dancing couple can be guessed. With pastose , bright colors and sharp contrasts, Kirchner achieves a maximum bright color effect that describes the atmosphere in a glamorous, urban Berlin dance hall of those years.
Origin and classification
The portrait shows the night club dancer Gerda Schilling, the sister of Kirchner's partner Erna.
Kirchner himself writes about Gerda: The beautiful, architecturally constructed, rigidly shaped bodies of these two girls replaced the soft Saxon bodies. [...] You educate my sense of beauty to shape the physically beautiful woman of our time.
In the late autumn of 1911 Kirchner went to Berlin. It was not only the attraction of a big city that brought him there, but also the intention of founding a painting school called the MUIM Institute (“Modern Teaching in Painting”) together with Max Pechstein . But this had little success. In October 1911 he met the sisters Erna and Gerda Schilling in Berlin, and Erna became Kirchner's partner.
- More similar works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Portrait Erna Schilling , 1913
See also
- Portrait of Erna Schilling
- Literature: Gerd Presler, Gerda Schilling, in: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, His women, his models, his pictures, Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1998, pp. 70–75
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Uta Laxner-Gerlach: Catalog of the paintings of the 20th century . Ed .: From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal. Das Museum, Wuppertal 1981, p. 132 .
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Henze: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Portrait of Gerda. (pdf) www.kirchnershop.com, accessed on March 19, 2015 .
- ^ From Kirchner's manuscript for The Work of EL Kirchner , probably written in 1925/26, in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner exhibition catalog . Drawing of a life , Kunstmuseum Basel, Bern 1979, by Eberhard W. Kornfeld
- ↑ Hyang-Sook Kim: The depictions of women in the work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: hidden self-confessions of the painter . Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2002, ISBN 3-8288-8407-5 , p. 93-94 ( online ).