Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Maryli (Young Woman with Bouquet of Carnations)1918-1919

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Artist or Maker: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Germany, also active Switzerland 1880-1938
Title: Maryli (Young Woman with Bouquet of Carnations)
Place Made: Germany
Date Made: 1918-1919
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 × 32 in. (91.44 × 81.28 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Winston
Accession Number: M.61.59
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: In 1917, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner left Germany for Davos, Switzerland, following a nervous collapse. There, he encouraged the younger Swiss artists Hermann Scherer and Albert Müller to experiment with sculpture. Scherer’s Sleeping Woman with Boy and Müller’s Standing Figure, on view in this gallery, are the only sculptures by them in an American museum.

Wall label, 2021.
Provenance: The artist, Berlin and Davos (1880-1938); Dr. Lucius Spengler (1858-1923), Davos; Sammlung Weidenmüller, Freudenstadt; Donald Winston (1892-1982), Los Angeles; given in 1961 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Gordon, Donald E. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.1968. Catalogue raisonné, no. 554, p. 346, illustrated.