Head of a Girl in a Music Hall (Mädchenkopf im Musikcafe)

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

Datecirca 1915

MediumDrypoint on paper

Dimensionssheet: 15 1/16 x 11 9/16 in. (38.3 x 29.4 cm)
image: 8 7/16 x 6 11/16 in. (21.4 x 17 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number58.4.8

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceProbably created Germany, ca. 1915; collection of the artist. [Ferdinand Roten Gallery, Baltimore]; sold to NCMA, 1958.
Published References"Registrar's Report of New Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 2, no. 1 (Summer 1958), listed 44.

W. R. Valentiner, E. L. Kirchner, German Expressionist (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1958), cat. no. 72.

The Art of the Print, Studies in Art Series (Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Co. Pub., 1969), illus. 116, fig. 86.

Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube, E.L. Kirchner, Das Graphische Werk (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1980), Vol. 1, no. E172.

Günther Gercken, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, Band III – 1912–1916 – Nummern 543–847 (Bern: Galerie Kornfeld Verlag, AG, 2015), no. 662, illus. 137.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "E.L. Kirchner, German Expressionist," January 10-February 9, 1958, cat. no. 72.

Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Memorial Art Center, "Graphic Art of the German Expressionists," 1960.

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

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "German Works on Paper," October 20-1983-January 15, 1984.

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.
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