
Art Institute of Chicago
Gerda Schilling, the Artist's Sister-in-Law
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · 1912/1914
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly with the artist until 1936 [according to Ketterer 1979]. Sold by Walter A. Peterhans (died 1960), Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1950.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, "20th Century Master Drawings," November 6, 1963-January 5, 1964, cat. 53; traveled to Minneapolis, Minn., the University Gallery, University of Minnesota, February 3-March 15, 1964; and Cambridge, Mass., the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, April 6-May 24, 1964.
- Seattle, Wash., Seattle Art Museum, "Kirchner: A Retrospective Exhibition," 1968-1969, cat. 80; traveled to the Pasadena Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
- Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Drawings from the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, April 23–May 14, 1972.
- Berlin, Nationalgalerie, "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner," November 29, 1979-January 20, 1980, cat. 159; traveled to Munich, Haus der Kunst, February 9-April 13, 1980; Koln, Museum Ludwig in the Kunstahlle, April 26-June 8, 1980; and the Kunsthaus Zurich, June 20-August 10, 1980.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years," July 24-September 30, 1985.
- Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner," March 2-June 1, 2003, p. 134, cat. 92 (ill.); traveled to London, June 28-September 21, 2003.
Literature
Published references
- R. N. Ketterer, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Stuttgart, 1979), no. 39.
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