Nude Figure [reverse]

Nude Figure [reverse] by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 196.1 x 65.4 cm (77 3/16 x 25 3/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CMC

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Wilhelmina and Wallace F. Holladay and Ruth and Jacob Kainen

Accession Number

1979.66.1.b

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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