Portrait of Ludwig Schames

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Portrait of Ludwig Schames

Alternate Title: Porträt Ludwig Schames

Germany, 1918
Prints; woodcuts
woodcut
Sheet: 22 3/8 × 15 1/8 in. (56.83 × 38.42 cm) Image: 22 1/8 × 10 5/8 in. (56.2 × 26.99 cm)
Gift of Anna Bing Arnold (M.90.14)
Prints and Drawings
Currently on public view:
Resnick Pavilion, floor 1

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Ludwig Schames was a beloved modern art dealer from Frankfurt....
Ludwig Schames was a beloved modern art dealer from Frankfurt. After his death, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner reproduced this portrait in the periodical Querschnitt and wrote, “This was the art dealer Ludwig Schames...In him we lost a man who was unique like a good father, a friend...a sympathetic promoter of the art of our time.” Kirchner, who often carved his sculptures from a single piece of wood, here used an irregular plank for the print’s matrix, allowing its curved form to dictate the shape of the finished image.

Exhibition Label: The Expressive Gaze: Portraits and Self-Portraits, 2022, Erin Maynes
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Exhibition history

  • The German Woodcut: Renaissance and Expressionist Revival Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 5, 2012 - September 9, 2012