- Title
- Portrait of Ludwig Schames
- Date Made
- 1918
- Medium
- woodcut
- Dimensions
- 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)
- Accession Number
- M.90.14
- Collecting Area
- Prints and Drawings
- Curatorial Notes
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
- Selected Bibliography
- Dübe, Annemarie und Wolf-Dieter. Das graphische Werk. München : Prestel, 1980.
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1991. vol. 28-29, no. 12-1 (December, 1990-January, 1992).
