| Female Half-Length Nude with Hat | |
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| Artist | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner |
| Year | 1910 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 76 cm× 70 cm(30 in× 28 in) |
| Location | Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
Female Half-Length Nude with Hat is an oil-on-canvas painting by German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, executed in 1911. It his held at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. [1]
The painting has the dimensions of 76 by 70 cm. It bears the inventory number WRM 2752 (WRM = Wallraf-Richartz-Museum). Kirchner's signature is on the top left: EL Kirchner II.
Kirchner's half-nude painting shows Doris Große, known as Dodo, with whom he was together from 1909 to 1911, when he moved from Dresden to Berlin. Doris Große was a milliner and was a designer of extravagant hats for women. The painting depicts her partially undressed, wearing a hat, and with an absent look. In addition to influences from French Fauvism, in which the motif of a beautiful woman with a hat often appeared, the sparse lines of the drawing and the restrained color scheme are elements taken from non-European art. In contrast to comparable depictions of passive sensuality in paintings of the female nude by Henri Matisse, the woman in Kirchner's painting has a more tense and conscious posture, as he knew from the depictions of the Indian wall paintings in Ajanta. He also abandoned the two-dimensionality he had previously practiced in favor of a more plastic visual effect. [2] [3]
Painted on the reverse of this canvas is the unfinished Fränzi in Wiesen from 1910, which depicts the muse and popular model for the Brücke artists, Lina Franziska Fehrmann, known as Fränzi.
The painting originally belonged to the Adolphe Baseler collection in Paris, then it was acquired by the American art dealer Sam Salz, who was then living in Paris. In 1924, it came to the collection of the lawyer Josef Haubrich in Cologne, where it survived the Nazi regimen and, like the entire Haubrich collection, was donated to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne in 1946. It remained there until 1976. Since then it has been exhibited in the Museum Ludwig, founded in 1976. Since 1922, the painting has been shown in numerous international exhibitions as an outstanding work by Kirchner. [4]
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