Mary Wigman's Dance

Mary Wigman's Dance by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Medium

woodcut in black touched with black ink on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 44.5 x 35.6 cm (17 1/2 x 14 in.) sheet: 53.2 x 41.3 cm (20 15/16 x 16 1/4 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.156.8

About the Artist

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · 18801938

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was born on May 6, 1880, in Aschaffenburg, Germany, to parents Ernst and Maria Kirchner, part of a family of Prussian descent that frequently relocated due to his father's career as a chemical technician. After early schooling in various towns, he studied architecture at the Königliche Technische Hochschule (Technical University) in Dresden from 1901 to 1905, taking courses i...

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