In the Restaurant / Ernst Kirchner
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2007/2.98
- Title
- In the Restaurant
- Artist
- Ernst Kirchner
- Artist Nationality
- German
- Artist Life Dates
- 1880-1938
- Medium and Support
- ink on cream wove paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1903
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Germany (nation)
- Saxony (state)
- Dresden
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Germany (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Saxony (state)
- Creation Place 4
- Dresden
- Style/Group/Movement
- German Expressionism / Die Brücke
- Inscription
- ON VERSO. Stamp in purple ink: Nachklass / E. L. Kirchner / (inscribed inside stamp in ink) F DrelBi 3
- [KKR: "Nachklass" is "estate" in German]
- Inscribed in pencil, lower left corner: K4760
- Inscribed in pencil, bottom center: 9.9 x 16.1 cm
- Inscribed in pencil, along bottom edge: Abgeb. Shiefler I Seite 45 Wir restaurant
- Inscribed in pencil, bottom right corner: 263.L- – 1G-
- Signed by artist in ink, lower right: E. L. Kirchner / Davos-Frauenkirch [kkr: Davos in Frauenkirch was the artist's home starting in 1918]
- Inscribed in ink, center area; Z-ra / 9 cm / A----- Zurich an
- Inscribed vertically along top left edge, in pencil: 3250
- Inscribed in pencil along top right edge: Im Restaurant / 1903 [kkr: Im Restaurant = At Restaurant in German]
- Inscribed in pencil, top center: 5684
- Incribed in pencil, top right: Schiefler / oeuvre katalog [kkr: This refers to the 2-volume catalog on Kirchner which Gustav Shiefler authored in Munich, 1967. The bottom verso inscription also potentially refers to this catalog, giving a page number of 45.]
- Dimensions
- 9.84 cm x 16.19 cm (3 7/8 in. x 6 3/8 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Drawing
- Primary Object Type
- life drawing
- Physical Description
- Artist's sketch from life; Kirchner developed a rapid, stroke-oriented (as opposed to detail-oriented) sketch style when out in the world. Appears to be (though not with certainty) two men conversing on the left, a man accompanied by a woman in a very tall hatt in the center/center-right, and a figure in the far right bottom corner foreground leaning toward a surface (a piano? cleaning a table?). Background and tables are suggested with various lines, but unclear.
- Subject Matter
- Several groups of figures in what could be a restaurant setting, with background.
- Secondary Keywords
- architecture
- building divisions
- buildings
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- europe (continent)
- geographic and political locations
- rooms and spaces
- rooms and spaces by function
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 3024 x 1878
- File Size
- 778 KB
- Record
- 2007/2.98
- Link to this Item
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"In the Restaurant; Ernst Kirchner." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2007-sl-2.98/2007_2_98.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 08, 2024.