Wrestlers in a Circus

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Wrestlers in a Circus

Ernst Ludwig KirchnerLinkedCulture matchlcp-4358769136b1

Date
1909
Medium
oil on canvas
Culture
Germany, 20th century
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
142792

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Locked in a dangerous embrace, beefy wrestlers writhe on a brightly colored mat. Famous for his scenes of urban life, Kirchner uses loose brushstrokes to capture the blur of bodies in motion. Imagine watching this intense match, surrounded by screaming spectators. During the 1930s, 639 works by Kirchner were removed from German museums and either destroyed or sold to foreign collectors and museums. The year after the Nazis organized the Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich, Kirchner committed suicide.

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Credit line
Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art and Bequest of William R. Valentiner
Provenance
1938-1957: Artist’s estate, sold to Grosshennig Gallery | 1957: (Galerie Grosshennig, Düsseldorf, Germany, sold to Otto Gerson Gallery) | 1957 - by 1960: (Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, lent to Grosshennig Gallery on commission) | By 1960-1963: (Galerie Grosshennig, Düsseldorf, Germany, returned unsold to Marlborough-Gerson Gallery) | 1963-1964: (Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, sold to Allan Frumkin) | 1964-1966: (Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY, sold to E.V. Thaw) | 1966: (E. V. Thaw, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1966-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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