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Poster for Die Brücke
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880-1938)
1907
- Medium
- Lithograph in green and gold on paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 80 × 61 cm (31 1/2 × 24 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- Germany
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Harold Joachim Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Fränzi Liegend (about twelve years old when this print was made) and her older sister Marcella were orphans whom Heckel and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner "adopted" as favored models around 1909 in Dresden. Heckel used a single wood block to create this two-color print: the block was cut apart in jigsaw fashion, the pieces inked separately and reassembled, and then printed all at once.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
