Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880 - 1938
Drei Frauen im Davoser Café Schneider. Um 1927.
Pen and India Ink drawing.
On off-white wove paper. 14 x 20.8 cm (5.5 x 8.1 in), the full sheet. [CH].

• A richly detailed and densely rendered drawing from his Davos period.
• At that time, the artist was a regular guest at Café Schneider on the Promenade (today Hugo’s Davos), where he sketched the visitors.
• Kirchner also incorporated his observations into his prints and paintings, for example in “Café am Morgen” (1935, Kirchner Museum, Davos).
• From the collection of Swiss textile artist and Kirchner’s close friend Lise Gujer (1893–1967).

The work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.

PROVENANCE: Collection/Estate of Lise Gujer (1893–1967), Davos-Sertig (directly from the artist; handwritten note: “Drawing by EL Kirchner, Lise Gujer” on the reverse).
Collection of Dr. Georg Friedrich Büchner, Berlin (1975).
Private collection, Italy (acquired in 2003, Bassenge, Berlin).

LITERATURE: Bassenge, Berlin, 81st auction, May 24, 2003, lot 6257 (illu.).

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