Woodcut.
Gercken 29 I (of II). Dube H 60 I. One of just 2 known copies from the original first printing state showing three pictures in teh background. On slightly yellowish laid paper. 15 x 10.6 cm. Sheet: 21 x 16,3 cm.
The depicted room presumably is the Kirchner's student room on Ostbahnstraße 15 in Dresden, where the artist lived in 1905/06 (cf. Georg Reinhardt, 1977/78, mentioned in: Gercken, Catalogue Raisonné of Prints, Bern 2015, cat. no. 29).
- One of just two known copies from the original first printing state. - Two of the six copies from the second printing, which show only two pictures in the background, are in museum ownership: the Brücke-Museum Berlin and the Buchheim Museum, Bernried. - Significant year of creation: Kirchner, Heckel, Schmidt-Rottluff, and Bleyl founded the artist group "Brücke" in 1905.
LITERATURE: Günther Gercken, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. 1 (1-272, 1904-1908), Bern 2013, p. 52, cat. no. 29 (illustrated on p. 53) - - Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory Catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, cf.: p. 286, SHG no. 647 (illustrated) (= two copies from the second state).