Man and Woman by the Sea
- Date
- 1908, printed 1916
- Material
- Soft-ground etching in brown
- printed in
- Berlin, Berlin state, Germany, Europe
- depicts
- Schleswig-Holstein state, Germany, Europe
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- plate: 10 9/16 × 13 11/16 in. (26.9 × 34.8 cm)
sheet: 14 5/16 × 18 3/16 in. (36.3 × 46.2 cm) - Credit Line
- The Sidney S. and Sadie Cohen Print Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 74:1965
NOTES
A woman in a white dress daydreams on a beach in Fehmarn, an island off the northeastern coast of Germany. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner spent the summer of 1908 on Fehmarn with the photographer Emy Frisch (1884–1975) and her brother Hans (1885–1945), the models for this print. Its irregular flecks, scribbled lines, and textural washes give the scene an otherworldly look that captures the reverie of a day by the sea.
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