Liegender Rückenakt. 1906.
Woodcut.
Gercken A-31 I (of II). Dube H 61. Monogrammd in printing block. From an edition of six known copies. On wove paper. 4.5 x 7.5 cm (1.7 x 2.9 in). Sheet: 13 x 10,7 cm (5,1 x 4,2 in).
The first state intended to be used as vignette for the unpublished catalog for the exhibition at the lamp factory Karl-Max-Seifert in Dresden-Löbtau (1906).
The motif was published, among others, as vignette (2nd state) in Georg Heym's important poetry book "Umbrae Vitae" in 1924.
• Three of the six known copies of this rare woodcut are museum-owned: Städel Museum, Frankfurt a. Main, Brücke-Museum Berlin, Kirchner Museum, Davos.
• The following year Kirchner used the motif for the painting "Liegendes Mädchen" (Gordon 32).
• In terms of form, the depiction composed of white lines still shows the impact of Félix Vallotton (1865–1925), whom the "Brücke" artists highly valued.

PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 130, SHG no. 99 (with illu., p. 129).
Michael Eissenhauer (ed.), ex. cat. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. "In Momenten größten Rausches" (Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik), Staatliche Museen Kassel, Kassel 2002, p. 22 (with illu., p. 24).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 287, SHG no. 648 (with illu.).
Günther Gercken, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. 7 (A-1-A-331, 1903-1937), Bern 2021, p. 20, cat. no. A-31 (with illu.).