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White Dancer in a Small Nightclub

1914

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

(German, 1880–1938)
Culture
Germany, 20th century
Medium
lithograph
Support
Wove paper
Measurements
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.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 2001.38
Catalogue raisonné
Dube 246; Gercken 665
State
II/III
Copyright
Copyright
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

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.

White Dancer in a Small Nightclub

1914

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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

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