The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

White Dancer in a Small Nightclub

White Dancer in a Small Nightclub

1914
(German, 1880–1938)
Germany, 20th century
lithograph
Image: 59 x 50 cm (23 1/4 x 19 11/16 in.); Sheet: 65 x 50 cm (25 9/16 x 19 11/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2001.38
Catalogue raisonné: Dube 246; Gercken 665
Location: not on view

Description

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was fascinated by the tawdry underworld of cabarets and nightclubs near where he lived in Berlin. He printed this nightclub scene from his largest lithographic stone. A high-kicking dancer is both leered at and ignored by a cadre of cigar-smoking men, one of whom, with his face toward the viewer, is Kirchner himself. The cramped space and smoky atmosphere, emphasized by the artist’s rapid, free marks, undermine the token optimism of the bubbles that surround the stage.
  • Hans Graf von der Goltz, Bad Homburg, Germany; Private Collection, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany [Hauswedell & Nolte Auction 343, 12 June 1949, lot 1851]; [Kurt Delbanco, German dealer]; Alice Adam sold print for Delbanco to CMA
  • Wye, Deborah, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kirchner and the Berlin Street. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2008. p. 65
    Cleveland Museum of Art, “New Acquisitions Now on View at the CMA,” July 11, 2001, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Glaubinger, Jane, "Twentieth-Century Revolution", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 41 no. 10, December 2001 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8-9 archive.org
  • Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018).
    Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 17, 2015).
    Kirchner and the Berlin Street. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (July 29-November 10, 2008).
    Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008).
  • {{cite web|title=White Dancer in a Small Nightclub|url=false|author=Ernst Ludwig Kirchner|year=1914|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2001.38