Two Nude Figures in a Landscape
Artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German, 1880–1938, active in Switzerland 1917–1938
Date1913
MediumOil with small additions of wax on canvas
Dimensionsheight, width, and depth: 47 1/2 × 35 1/2 × 1 in. (120.7 × 90.2 × 2.5 cm)
frame: 55 1/4 × 43 1/8 × 2 1/2 in. (140.3 × 109.5 × 6.4 cm)
frame: 55 1/4 × 43 1/8 × 2 1/2 in. (140.3 × 109.5 × 6.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineBequest of W. R. Valentiner
Object numberG.65.10.48
On View
On view[1] Detroit inventory #2, "Figures on the Shore" by Kirchner (see label).
[2] L.58.12.102-VE "Two Nude Figures" by Otto Mueller (inventory compiled by J. Byrnes.
Published ReferencesThe Art Quarterly 17, no. 2 (Summer 1963), 275.
"Acquisitions: The Valentiner Bequest," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), listed 79 (as by Mueller).
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 262 (as by Otto Mueller).
L. E. [Lisa Eveleigh], "Private Collectors Share Their Art," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Autumn 1992), mentioned and illus. (b-w) 12 (as by Mueller).
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 256 (as by Otto Mueller).
Mario Andreas von Lüttichau, "Two Nude Figures in a Landscape: A New Attribution," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 17 (1997), 20-39, illus. (color) 20, detail (color) 39.
Huston Paschal, entry for Two Nude Figures in a Landscape, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 213, illus. (color).
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (exhibition catalogue), Jill Lloyd and Janis Staggs, eds. (Munich: Prestel Verlag for Neue Galerie, New York, 2019), cat. no. 37, illus. (color).
Exhibition HistoryWinston-Salem, NC, Wake Forest University, “German Expressionist Works,” February 15-March 15, 1979.
New York, NY, Neue Galerie, “Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,” October 3, 2019–January 13, 2020, cat. no. 37, illus.(color).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "John Brooks and German Expressionism," November 4, 2024-present. Object Rights Statement
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