Wrestlers in a Circus

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Wrestlers in a Circus, 1909. oil on canvas.

oil on canvas · Framed: 107.5 x 121 x 7 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Die Brücke

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Museum title: Wrestlers in a Circus
Artist: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880–1938)
Date: 1909
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Framed: 107.5 x 121 x 7 cm (42 5/16 x 47 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 80.5 x 94 cm (31 11/16 x 37 in.)
Credit line: Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art and Bequest of William R. Valentiner
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Cleveland Museum of Art

Artist’s life 1880–1938

Die Brücke c. 1905–1913

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.