Tänzer. Um 1915.
Pen and India ink drawing über Bleistift.
Auf Zeichenpapier. 20.2 x 15.5 cm (7.9 x 6.1 in), size of sheet.
[CH].
• From the much sought-after Berlin years.
• The artist's interest in dance and movement runs through Kirchner's entire oeuvre.
• With dynamic, nimble lines, the artist conveys the immediacy of expressive dance movement.
• In the year this work was made, Kirchner also created the painting "Der Tanz zwischen den Frauen" (Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich); the sketch offered here may have served as a preparatory drawing for the male dancer in the painting.

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. 264, SHG no. 382 (illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 340, SHG no. 766 (illu.).

In good condition. Small kinks in lower margin.