Village Street
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1906–09
Medium
Etching, from a brass plate, in blue-gray on white wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 26.8 × 34.7 cm (10 9/16 × 13 11/16 in.); Sheet: 44 × 59.5 cm (17 3/8 × 23 7/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
83832
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...