(Aschaffenburg 1880–1938 Frauenkirch near Davos)
Drei Kokotten bei Nacht, 1914, signed E L Kirchner, etching on paper, 25 x 17.3 cm (image size), 38.8 x 36.5 cm (sheet size), framed

Provenance:
Dr. Andreas Sturies - Moderne Kunst & Auktionen, Düsseldorf, 15 May 2004, lot 104
Private Collection Thomas Olbricht, Essen
Van Ham, Cologne, 26 September 2020, lot 306 – acquired there by the present owner

Exhibited:
Krems, Kunsthalle Krems, Lebenslust & Totentanz. Olbricht Collection, 18 June – 07 November 2010
Berlin, Aurel Scheibler Galerie, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Berliner Straßenszenen, 19 November – 23 November 2013

Literature:
Günther Gercken: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, Bd. III, 1912–1916, no. 543–847, Bern 2015, no. 660. II, with illustration
Annemarie and Wolf Dieter Dube: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Das graphische Werk, Bd. I - Katalog, Munich 1991, no. 181. II
Wolfgang Schoppmann and Hans-Peter Wipplinger (ed.): Lebenslust & Totentanz. Olbricht Collection, Krems 2010, p. 184
Magdalena M. Moeller: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Die Straßenszenen 1913–1915, Munich 1993, no. 87 with illustration
Gerd Presler: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Die Skizzenbücher. Ekstase des ersten Sehens, Karlsruhe/Davos 1996, Skb 37–55, illustration on p. 231

The etching offered here belongs to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's group of works called Street Scenes. The works in this group were created in Berlin between 1913 and 1915 and focus on life in the city that was becoming a metropolis. Kirchner paid particular atten-tion to the pulsating street and night life. The title of the work, Three Coquettes at Night, reveals the content of the etching, created in 1914. In the 19th century, coquettes were easy girls or elegant demimonde ladies. The group of works in question includes several paintings, numerous sketchbook pages, drawings and prints.