Asta: 533 / Modern Art Day Sale and Gerlinger Collection del 10 dicembre 2022 a Monaco di Baviera Lot 403

 

403
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Programm der Künstlergruppe "Brücke" / Topfmarkt, 1906.
xilografia
Stima:
€ 4,000 / $ 4,320
Risultato:
€ 16,250 / $ 17,550

( commissione inclusa)
Programm der Künstlergruppe "Brücke" / Topfmarkt. 1906.
Woodcut.
Gercken A-28. Dube 696 / verso: Gercken 103. Dube 39. Monogrammed in upper left of printing block. With the stamp of Walter Kirchner (Lugt 1570 a), the artist's brother, and inscribed by a hand other than that of the artist. One of 11 known copies and one of four known copies. 15.2 x 7.5 cm (5.9 x 2.9 in). Topfmarkt: 13,5 x 13,7 cm (5,3 x 5,4 in).
Sheet: 25,5 x 18,6 cm (10 x 7,3 in). [SM].
• This is only the second time that a copy of the "Brücke" program is offered on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).
• Only four copies of "Topfmarkt" are known.
• Hand-printed by the artist
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PROVENANCE: Walter Kirchner, Berlin (1947, with the stamp Lugt 1570a).
Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern (2003, with the label on the mount).
Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (acquired from the above in 2003, with the collector's stamp Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Expressiv! Die Künstler der Brücke. Die Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Albertina, Vienna, June 1 - August 26, 2007, cat. no. 116, p. 402.
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Collection Hermann Gerlinger, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Hans Bolliger, E. W. Kornfeld, Ausstellung Künstlergruppe Brücke. Jahresmappen 1906-12, Bern 1958, p. 24, no. 29b (with illu. in the text, different copy).
Simone Füredi, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Der frühe Holzschnitt 1904 bis 1908 (catalog of Galerie Henze & Ketterer Wichtrach, no. 70), Wichtrach et al, 2003, no. 19 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 290, SHG no. 655, and p. 285, SHG no. 641.

The foundation
E. L. Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff founded the artists' group "Die Brücke". They woredk together in E. L. Kirchner's room and in Heckel's residential studio on Berliner Straße in Dresden.
"With the belief in the development of a new generation of art creators as well as art lovers, we summon all youth and as youth, who bear the future, we want to gain freedom from the established forces. Everyone expressing an urge to create, directly and unadulteratedly, is one of us."
In connection with the recruitment of members, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner also cut the "Program" in wood in 1906. The design of text elements becomes an important aspect of communication and marketing. This includes a specific, recognizable typeface. For this purpose, with this first text woodcut, Kirchner also created a first typeface with a simple, decorative effect and formulated the already familiar text with individual capitals in a continuous rhythm, paying meticulous attention to syntax. Kirchner developed a no less striking solution with the opening initial "M": Not only can the artist "hide" his monogram here, but he also repeats the squatting figure from the title vignette of the program sheet here. (p.17). [MvL]



403
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Programm der Künstlergruppe "Brücke" / Topfmarkt, 1906.
xilografia
Stima:
€ 4,000 / $ 4,320
Risultato:
€ 16,250 / $ 17,550

( commissione inclusa)