Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right. 51 x 70.5 cm.
The work is mentioned in the artist's Photoalbum I (photo 191).
- Dresden, the birthplace of German Expressionism: in 1905, E. L. Kirchner was among the founding members of the legendary artists' group “Die Brücke” (1905-1913). - Pure Expressionism: the motifs emerge from pure, high-contrast colors. - Outstanding and consistent provenance: once part of the collection of Dr. Ludwig and Dr. Otto Binswanger, the artist’s physicians at the Bellevue Sanatorium in Kreuzlingen, and their descendants. - With bold brushstrokes and radical simplification of forms, Kirchner transforms the colors of spring into a masterpiece of Expressionist painting. - Today, paintings of this quality are almost exclusively held by museums.
The work is documented at the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
LITERATURE: Donald E. Gordon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Munich 1968, pp. 69 and 292, CR no. 127 (illustrated in black and white). - - Albert Schoop, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in Thurgau. Die 10 Monate in Kreuzlingen 1917-1918, Bern 1992, p. 64. Konstanze Rudert, Dresdner Motive in den Werken der Künstlergemeinschaft Brücke (based on Bernd Hünlich’s topographical-critical inventory), in: Exhibition catalog Die Brücke in Dresden 1905-1911, Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Cologne 2001/2002, p. 382 (illustrated). Hans Delfs (ed.), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Der gesamte Briefwechsel - “Die absolute Wahrheit, so wie ich sie fühle,” Zurich 2010, nos. 507 and 516. Villa Grisebach, Berlin, 125th Auction, Selected Works, June 3, 2005, lot 18 (illustrated).

E. L. Kirchner und Rot-Blau, Kunsthalle Basel, 1967, cat. no. 17. Im Farbenrausch. Munch, Matisse und die Expressionisten, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Sept. 29, 2012-Jan. 13, 2013, cat. no. 73 (illustrated on p. 171)

Dr. Ludwig Binswanger and Dr. Otto Binswanger, Kreuzlingen (purchased directly from the artist, after 1918, subsequently in the family’s possession). M. Binswanger-Huber, Bern (inherited). Private collection, Southern Germany (acquired from the above in 2005, Grisebach, Berlin). In the possession of the family ever since

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