KIRCHNER, ERNST LUDWIG1880 Aschaffenburg - 1938 Frauenkirch/Davos


Title: Liegende Dodo in der Badewanne (Girl in the Bathtub).
Date: 1909.
Technique: Watercolour and India ink on yellowish, slightly satinised paper.
Measurement: 49 x 59,5cm.
Notation: Estate stamp of the artist (Lugt 1570b) verso lower left with the listed number: A Dre/Bg 19. Here additionally inscribed: K 3668 and C 2032.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


The work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Berne. We are grateful for the kind scientific support.

Provenance:
- Estate of the artist (Davos 1938)
- Basel Art Museum (since 1946)
- Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett Roman Norbert Ketterer (since 1954)
- Private collection South Germany (since 1980)

Exhibitions:
- Gallery Nierendorf, Berlin 1963
- Gallery Roman Norbert Ketterer, Stuttgart 1980

Literature:
- Exhib. cat. E.L. Kirchner on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin 1963, p. 17, cat. no. 10, ill
- Exhib. cat. The Work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Malerei, Grafik, Plastik, Zeichnung, Galerie Roman Norbert Ketterer 1980, p. 76, cat. no. 50, ill.
- Presler, Gerd: Die Brücke, Rowohlts Monographien, 2007, p. 52, ill.

- A wonderfully captivating and tender depiction of his lover Doris (Dodo) Große in terms of colour and radiance
- During Kirchner's time in Dresden until 1911, Dodo repeatedly modelled for the artist in his drawings and paintings
- From the best "Brücke" period.