Head of Ludwig Schames (Kopf Ludwig Schames)

Artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German, 1880–1938, active in Switzerland 1917–1938

Date1918

MediumWoodcut on buff paper

Dimensionssheet: 23 1/2 x 16 1/4 in. (59.7 x 41.2 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineBequest of W. R. Valentiner

Object numberG.65.10.31

On View

Not on view

ProvenancePossibly collection of the artist, Switzerland, until 1937, W. R. Valentiner, Detroit, MI, 1937 [1]; Valentiner Estate, Raleigh, NC, 1958 [2]; to NCMA, by bequest, 1965.

[1] Valentiner mentions receiving "some woodcuts" from Kirchner in 1937. See note in file.
[2] L.58.12.6-VE, "Portrait of L. Schames."
Published ReferencesW. R. Valentiner, E. L. Kirchner, German Expressionist (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1958), cat. no. 80a.

The Art Quarterly 26, no. 2 (Summer 1963), 275.

The Art of the Print, Studies in Art Series (Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Co. Pub., 1969), illus. 105, fig. 77.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 6, no. 4 and 7, no. 1 (1966/67?), mentioned 10, listed 81.

Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube, E.L. Kirchner, Das Graphische Werk (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1980), Vol. 1, no. 330, iii/III.

Serge Sabarsky, Druckgraphik des Deutschen Expressionismus (West Germany: Herforder Kunstverein, 1984), 139, 233 (as Kopf Ludwig Schames).

North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Spring 1986), 13, illus.
Exhibition HistoryPhoenix, AZ, Phoenix Fine Arts Association, "German Expressionist Prints and Paintings," February 9-March 7, 1953.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "E.L. Kirchner, German Expressionist," January 10-February 9, 1958, cat. no. 80a.

Winston-Salem, NC, Wake Forest University, "German Expressionist Works," February 15-March 15, 1979.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Changing Selections Gallery, "Early Twentieth Century German Prints," February 5-May 4, 1986.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Changing Selections Gallery, "German Prints, 1910-1924," April 18-July 15, 1990.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The Legacy of W. R. Valentiner," January 27-March 29, 1998.

Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Museum, "Romantic Dreams and Rude Awakenings: Northern European Prints and Drawings, 1840-1940," April 8-July 10, 2011.
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