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Compare the dense black hatching of the dancer on the left with the thinner, open lines of her partner, then find the cat at lower left.
The Brücke artists went to variety theaters in Berlin as well as in Dresden, and Kirchner moved to Berlin in 1911. He drew these two dancers in 1913 with a reed pen and black ink on brown paper. A small cat at the lower left is drawn with the same rough strokes as the women.
reed pen and black ink on brown wove paper · sheet: 43.7 x 33.1 cm · National Gallery of Art · Die Brücke
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- Museum title
- Two Dancers with a Cat
- Artist
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German, 1880 - 1938
- Date
- 1913
- Medium
- reed pen and black ink on brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 43.7 x 33.1 cm (17 3/16 x 13 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- National Gallery of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.