Street scene Berlin
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| Street scene Berlin |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , 1913 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 69.9 x 50.8 cm |
| Art Gallery of Ontario , Toronto |
The street scene Berlin from 1913 is a smaller painting from the cycle of street scenes by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner . In the center of the picture are two cocottes with eye-catching, diamond-shaped hats and mask-like faces, their gaze directed towards the viewer. On the right side a man looks into a shop window, from the background a group of men also looks in the direction of the viewer, another man stands away. The picture is kept in strikingly bright and contrasting colors.
This painting remained in Kirchner's possession until his death and was sold to the collector Werner Brunner in St. Gallen via the estate in 1952 . In 1978 the gallery owner Roman Norbert Ketterer acquired it , in 1997 it was bought by the Canadian collector Charles Tabachnick via Sotheby’s in London and exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. In 2009 it was auctioned again and sold to an unknown buyer for £ 5.4 million.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Catalog raisonné No. 414 on the reverse, after: Donald E. Gordon: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. With a critical catalog of all paintings , Munich 1968
- ^ Sotheby's London press release, January 2009 , accessed October 1, 2016
literature
- Donald E. Gordon: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Critical catalog raisonné , Munich 1968
- Magdalene M. Moeller: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The street scenes 1913–1915 . Hirmer Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7774-6190-3