Smoking Peasant
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1876 to 1900
Medium
color woodcut printed in blue and red
Dimensions
image: 18 x 18 cm (7 1/16 x 7 1/16 in.) sheet: 21.3 x 21.5 cm (8 3/8 x 8 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.693
About the Artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · 1880–1938
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...