In the Restaurant / Ernst Kirchner

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Accession Number
2007/2.98
Title
In the Restaurant
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.
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3024 x 1878
File Size
778 KB
Record
2007/2.98
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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 March 28, 2024.
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