Female half nude with hat

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Female half nude with hat (Ernst Ludwig Kirchner)
Female half nude with hat
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , 1911
Oil on canvas
76 × 70 cm
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Female Half Nude with Hat is the title of an Expressionist painting from 1911 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , which shows the motif of a half- bared woman for the first time in his work. Today it belongs to the inventory of the Cologne Museum Ludwig .

History, image content and provenance

The painting Female Half Nude with Hat has the image format 76 × 70 cm and is executed in the painting technique oil on canvas . It bears the inventory number WRM 2752 (WRM = Wallraf-Richartz-Museum). Kirchner's signature is on the top left: EL Kirchner II .

Kirchner's half- nude painting shows Doris Große, known as Dodo , with whom he was together from 1909 to 1911, when he moved from Dresden to Berlin. Doris Große was a milliner and designed extravagant women's hats. In addition to influences from French Fauvism , in which the motif of a beautiful woman in a hat often appeared, for example in Alexej von Jawlensky , the sparse lines of the drawing and the restrained coloring, Kirchner's picture also contains elements of his preoccupation with non-European art. In contrast to comparable depictions of a passive sensuality of the motif of the naked woman in Henri Matisse (example of the blue nude (memory of Biskra) ), in Kirchner the woman has a more tense, conscious posture, as he knew from depictions of Indian wall paintings in the caves of Ajanta . He also abandons the two-dimensionality he had previously practiced in favor of a more plastic visual effect. On the back of the canvas is the unfinished picture Fränzi in Wiesen from 1910, which shows the muse and the popular model of the Brücke artist Lina Franziska Fehrmann , known as Fränzi .

Provenance : The picture originally belonged to the Adolphe Baseler collection in Paris, then it was acquired by the American art dealer Sam Salz , who was living in Paris at the time. In 1924 the half-act with hat came to the collection of the lawyer Josef Haubrich in Cologne , where it survived the Nazi era and, like the entire Haubrich collection, was donated to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne in 1946 . It stayed there until 1976. Since then, it has been exhibited in the Museum Ludwig , founded in 1976 . Since 1922, the female half nude with hat has been shown in numerous international exhibitions as an outstanding work by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

literature

  • Hyang-Sook Kim: The "physical ideal of beauty" of women. In: The depictions of women in the work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: the painter's hidden self-confessions. Tectum, Marburg 2002, ISBN 3-8288-8407-5 . online, p. 73.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. TV broadcast on Westdeutscher Rundfunk on wdr.de
  2. ^ Donald E. Gordon: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. With a critical catalog of all paintings. Munich 1968, p. 76ff.
  3. ^ Exhibition catalog of the Berlin National Gallery: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Berlin 1979, p. 159f.