Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880 - 1938
Albertplatz Platz in Dresden-Neustadt - Das Boskett. 1911.
Lithograph.
Signed and inscribed "Handdruck 1. Abzug". One of to date 6 known copies. On snmooth wove paper. 33 x 38.5 cm (12.9 x 15.1 in). Sheet: 40,1 x 46,3 cm (15,7 x 18,2 in).

• First and early print from only six known copies.
• Only one copy has ever been offered on the international auction market, almost 30 years ago (source: artprice.com).
• Kirchner also immortalized the bosquet on Albertplatz in Dresden in a painting of the same name from the same year.
• Charming, atmospheric street scene from the best “Brücke” period.
• Street scenes are among the most important subjects in Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's oeuvre.
• Other copies from this edition are at, among others, the Museum Folkwang, Essen, and the Kunsthalle Hamburg.

PROVENANCE: Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel, Berlin.
Private collection, Great Britain (acquired from the above in 2002).

LITERATURE: Günther Gercken, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. 2 (1909–1911), Bern 2013, catalogue raisonné no. 526 (illustrated).
Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube, E. L. Kirchner. Das graphische Werk, Munich 1967, catalogue raisonné no. L.162.
Gustav Schiefler, Die Graphik Ernst Ludwig Kirchners, Vol. 1 (until 1916), Berlin-Charlottenburg 1926, catalogue raisonné no. L.170.