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Wrestlers in a Circus

1909

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

(German, 1880–1938)
Culture
Germany, 20th century
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Framed: 107.5 x 121 x 7 cm (42 5/16 x 47 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 80.5 x 94 cm (31 11/16 x 37 in.)
Credit Line
Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art and Bequest of William R. Valentiner 1966.49
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Location
225 German Expressionism & Surrealism
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Did You Know?

During the 1930s, 639 works by Kirchner were removed from German museums and either destroyed or sold to foreign collectors and museums. The year after the Nazis organized the Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich, Kirchner committed suicide.

Description

Locked in a dangerous embrace, beefy wrestlers writhe on a brightly colored mat. Famous for his scenes of urban life, Kirchner uses loose brushstrokes to capture the blur of bodies in motion. Imagine watching this intense match, surrounded by screaming spectators.
A colorful oil painting with loose brushstrokes depicting two wrestlers and four people watching. One wrestler's entire body pins the other down on the green, red, and orange patterned rug below them.

Wrestlers in a Circus

1909

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

(German, 1880–1938)
Germany, 20th century

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