Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Fir Trees
1919
Physical Qualities
Color woodcut, Sheet: 660 x 430 mm. (26 x 16 15/16 in.)
Image: 620 x 335 mm. (24 7/16 x 13 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Board of Trustees Fund
Object Number
1950.109
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1950; Gutekunst & Klipstein
Oliver Shell, BMA, "German Expressionism: A Revolutionary Spirit," 29 January - 14 September 2014.
Goucher College, April-May, 1957.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Oct. - Nov. 1957.
Turin, "L'Incisione Europea dal Xv al XX Secolo," Turin Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, April 18-June 23, 1968, cat. 306 (illus).
BMA, "19th and 20th Century Northern European Graphics: Angelica Kauffman to Ludwig Kirchner," 8 February - 3 April, 1977.
BMA, "Master Prints II: Daumier to Picasso," 25 October, 1983 - 15 January, 1984.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "German Expressionist Graphics 1905-1985," 9 August - 9 October, 1988.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "75 Years/75 Prints: Masterpieces from the Museum's Collection, 1914-1989," 1 April - 4 June, 1989.
Susan Dackerman, BMA, "A Modern Renaissance: German Expressionist Prints and Drawings," 10 July - 29 September, 1996.
Goucher College, April-May, 1957.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Oct. - Nov. 1957.
Turin, "L'Incisione Europea dal Xv al XX Secolo," Turin Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, April 18-June 23, 1968, cat. 306 (illus).
BMA, "19th and 20th Century Northern European Graphics: Angelica Kauffman to Ludwig Kirchner," 8 February - 3 April, 1977.
BMA, "Master Prints II: Daumier to Picasso," 25 October, 1983 - 15 January, 1984.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "German Expressionist Graphics 1905-1985," 9 August - 9 October, 1988.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "75 Years/75 Prints: Masterpieces from the Museum's Collection, 1914-1989," 1 April - 4 June, 1989.
Susan Dackerman, BMA, "A Modern Renaissance: German Expressionist Prints and Drawings," 10 July - 29 September, 1996.
Clisby, Roger D. 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings from the Baltimore Museum of Art: Catalogue [of an exhibition held at the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, November 3 - December 2, 1973, Honolulu Academy of Arts, January 18 - February 17, 1974, and William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, April 2 - April 21, 1974]. [Sacramento, CA]: E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, 1973, cat. no. 30, unpaged.
Signed: 3
Inscribed: Recto: at lower left, in graphite: "Eigendruck"; at lower right, in graphite: "E.L. Kirchner"; Verso: at lower right, in graphite: "M47"
Markings: Recto: none; Verso: at lower left, stamped in purple ink: "NACHLASS/ E.L.KIRCHNER"
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