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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Poster of Nina Hard1921

Not on view
Woodcut print in black, yellow, red, and blue-green of a theatrical figure with a diamond eye marking and red lips, flanked by brushes and a crimson fan
Artist or Maker
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Title
Poster of Nina Hard
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1921
Medium
woodcut
Dimensions
Image: 21 1/4 x 15 1/4 in. (54.0 x 38.7 cm) irregular; Sheet: 23 7/16 x 16 3/4 in. (59.5 x 42.5 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.127
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Curatorial Notes

The Brazilian-born German dancer Nina Hard was closely identified with an uninhibited and improvisational style of dance referred to as Ausdruckstanz (expressionistic dance). Kirchner met Hard in Switzerland in 1921, and the two became close. The artist depicted the dancer multiple times in drawings, prints, paintings, and weavings and even created sets for one of her performances. This woodcut became the poster for that performance, which was held at the Clavadel Sanatorium in Davos in 1921.


Exhibition Label: The Expressive Gaze: Portraits and Self-Portraits, 2022, Erin Maynes.
Selected Bibliography

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

  • Dübe, Annemarie und Wolf-Dieter. Das graphische Werk. München : Prestel, 1980.
  • Chipp, Herschel B. and Karin Breuer. The Human Image in German Expressionist Graphic Art From the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation. Berkeley: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1981.