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Follow the curved green lines that sweep out behind the woman’s green cloak, then drop to the hand-drawn letters of the group’s name along the bottom.
Kirchner designed this poster in 1907 for the artists’ group he had helped found in Dresden two years before. It is a lithograph in green and gold, 80 cm tall. The small line of type at the bottom left names the Dresden printing firm Wilhelm Hoffmann. Kirchner printed almost all of his other prints himself, by hand and in tiny runs.
Lithograph in green and gold on paper · 80 × 61 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Die Brücke
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- Museum title
- Poster for Die Brücke
- Artist
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German, 1880-1938
- Date
- 1907
- Medium
- Lithograph in green and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- 80 × 61 cm (31 1/2 × 24 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Harold Joachim Purchase Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.