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Villa in Dresden, ca. 1910

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 64.5 x 91 cm
  • Inv. 1991-F

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner studied architecture in Dresden. He was a self-taught painter. Together with Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff he founded the expressionist group, Die Brücke, in Dresden in 1905. Villa in Dresden is a typical example of Kirchner’s budding expressionism. Here the artist magically transforms an everyday scene into a powerful portrayal in which the geometrical architecture is contrasted with the irregular silhouettes of the trees. The artist has not used a primer but applied the paint directly onto very rough canvas which is visible between the various colours. This has the effect of slightly toning down the colour contrasts. As an architecture student, Kirchner drew numerous townscapes in Dresden. The house we see here is located on Löbtauerstrasse and appears in some of his other drawings and paintings from this period, but viewed from different angles.

Artist

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner RKD
Aschaffenburg 1880 - Frauenkirch (Davos) 1938
painters (artists)AAT

Title Villa in Dresden
Date ca. 1910
Period 20th century
Location Dresden TGN
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1991-F
Acquisition credit bequest
Lasnitzki, Tony
Koksijde
1991-06-18
Current whereabouts Work on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1991-F
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3904/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300015571 cityscapes (representations) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 25G11 groups of trees Iconclass
25G3 trees Iconclass
25I14 public road Iconclass
25I141 street Iconclass
25I141(+0) street (+ variant) Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass
31D15 adult woman Iconclass
41A housing Iconclass
41A1 civic architecture; edifices; dwellings Iconclass
41A14 urban housing Iconclass
41A143 detached house in city Iconclass
41A162 villa Iconclass
41A171 barn Iconclass
41A18 hut, cabin, lodge Iconclass
61D(GERMANY) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (GERMANY) Iconclass
61E(DRESDEN) names of cities and villages (DRESDEN) Iconclass
School / Style Expressionist (style) AAT
German Expressionism
Modernist AAT
200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. 270 (ill. 193))
D'Ensor à Magritte dans les collections du Musée de Gand (exposition Lodève, Musée de Lodève-Hôtel du Cardinal de Fleury, 19 novembre 2004 - 27 février 2005) / Maïthé Vallès-Bled, Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Helke Lauwaert, Bruno Fornari. - Lodève : Musée de Lodève, 2004 ; Milano : Mazzotta, 2004 (p. 191-193, cat. 50)
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II p. 205 (ill.))
Het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : een keuze uit de mooiste werken / Patrick De Rynck. - Gent : Ludion, 2007 (p. 107 (ill.))
Kirchner : Paradijs in de bergen (tentoonstelling Laren, Singer Laren, 09.12.2015 - 10.04.2016) / Thorsten Sadowsky, Jan Rudolph De Lorm, Caroline Roodenburg-Schadd, Henk Van Os. - Laren : Singer Laren, 2015 (p. 28-29)
onder vrienden : 225 jaar verzamelaars rond het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 25.11.2023 - 28.04.2024) / Johan De Smet, Frederica Van Dam, Willy Van der Gucht, Manfred Sellink. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2023 ; Gent : De Vrienden van het Museum, 2023 (p. 219, cat. 249 (ill.))
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