Ernst Ludwig Kirchner — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

Nacktes Mädchen im Schilf (Fränzi) (recto); Frau und Mädchen nackt im Schnee (verso), 1911

Nov 2025

Christie's

Im Schnellzug (Albert Müller und Kirchner) (In the Train (Albert Müller and Kirchner)), 1925

Mar 2025

Sotheby's

$1,080,000

Nov 2024

Christie's

Sonnentänzerin, 1933

£781,200 ($1.0M USD)

Mar 2024

Christie's

Zwei Mädchen mit Badewanne (Frau in flacher Wanne und Mädchen mit Fächer) (recto); Sitzender schwarzhaariger Mädchenakt (verso), 1909

£3,791,000 ($5.0M USD)

Mar 2024

Christie's

Fränzi mit Badetub (Hockende Fränzi)

£12,600 ($17k USD)

Jun 2023

Sotheby's

Erich Heckel und Fränzi an den Moritzburger Teichen, (zwei Menschen) (Erich Heckel and Fränzi at the Moritzburg ponds, (two people))

$35,791

Mar 2023

Sotheby's

Tannen über dem Sertigtal (Davoser Landschaft)

$43,004

Mar 2023

Sotheby's

Tänzerin (Nina Hardt)

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Sitzende Frau mit Hut

Unknown

Mar 2023

Christie's

Leuchtturm hinter Bucht, 1912

Rothaarige (recto); Rosa Stilleben (verso), 1914

Feb 2023

Christie's

Blick auf die Stafelalp mit Selbstbildnis im Fenster

Feb 2023

Christie's

$32,760

Nov 2022

Christie's

Stafelalp, Gesamtansicht (Alpaufzug)

$21,420

Oct 2022

Sotheby's

Zwei nähende Frauen am Tisch (Two Women Sewing at the Table)

£13,000 ($17k USD)

Oct 2022

Sotheby's

Selbstbildnis mit Pfeife (Self-Portrait with a Pipe), 1907

Unknown

Jun 2022

Christie's

Drei Tänzerinnen (Wigmann-Gruppe)

Christie's

Christie's

For Sale 7

Ludorff · Artsy

Paar im Gespräch, Erna und Gewecke, 1912

€69,000

Pencil on vellum

Ludorff · Artsy

Sitzende Frau mit einem Hut in einem Restaurant, 1912

€245,000

Watercolour, opaque colour and pencil on paper

Ludorff · Artsy

Zwei am Zelt (Am Ufer), 1911

€65,000

Coloured crayon on paper

Ludorff · Artsy

Kleines Palais in Dresden (Villa in Dresden), 1909

€85,000

Coloured crayon on heavy wove paper

Ludorff · Artsy

Brücke über den Fluss, 1910

€29,000

Pencil on heavy wove paper

Ludorff · Artsy

Kopf Dodo, 1911

€59,000

Pencil on heavy wove paper

Ludorff · Artsy

Ein Boskett in Dresden, mit Blick auf ein Palais, 1910

€45,000

Pencil on paper

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Market4,147 auction results

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$1.4K – $1.4M

237 of 309 works on paper lots with prices

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$50.6K

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$20.5K

237 priced works on paper lots

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Jun 2026 · $1.5K

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Works on paper: $20.5K medianPaintings: $603K medianSculpture/objects: $20.9K medianEditioned prints: $20.8K medianUnclassified lots: $58.8K medianBooks/portfolios: $11.4K medianPosters/ephemera: $13.2K median

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Education1

Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg

Hamburg, Germany

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Publications28

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Catalogue Raisonné 1

E.L. Kirchner, das graphische Werk

Prestel · 1991

Monograph 4

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Ein Künstlerleben in Selbstzeugnissen

Skira · 2017

Hatje Cantz · 2010

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Prestel · 1998

Ernst Ludwig Kirchners Davoser Tagebuch

Hatje Cantz · 1997

Exhibition Catalog 19

Staging Nature and Life Author

Hatje Cantz · 2021

Die späten Werke von Ernst Ludwig Kirchner und Jens Ferdinand Willumsen: Natur und Leben in Szene gesetzt

Hatje Cantz · 2020

40|10 Les 40 ans de la collection - les 10 ans du musée Frieder Burda

Prestel · 2020

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Prestel · 2019

Hatje Cantz · 2014

"No one else has these colors" Author

Hatje Cantz · 2012

»Keiner hat diese Farben wie ich.« Kirchner malt

Hatje Cantz · 2011

Kunst zum Hören: Kirchner

Hatje Cantz · 2010

Kirchner

Hatje Cantz · 2010

Hatje Cantz · 2010

Die Skulpturen der Maler: Malerei und Plastik im Dialog

Hatje Cantz · 2008

Les Peintres-Sculpteurs

Hatje Cantz · 2008

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erstes Sehen: das Werk im Berliner Kupferstichkabinett. Ausstellung, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, 30.4. - 29.8.2004 Author

Prestel · 2004

Kirchner, Heckel, Schmidt-Rottluff, Nolde: K unstler der Br ucke in der Sammlung Hagemann

Hatje Cantz · 2004

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Bergleben. Die frühen Davoser Jahre 1917-1926

Hatje Cantz · 2003

Hatje Cantz · 2003

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Der Maler als Bildhauer

Hatje Cantz · 2003

Lucas Cranach: Glaube, Mythologie und Moderne

Hatje Cantz · 2003

Landschaften von Brueghel bis Kandinsky

Hatje Cantz · 2001

Group Catalog 2

Kirchner, Schmidt-Rottluff, Nolde, Nay--

Hatje Cantz · 2004

Magie der Bäume

Hatje Cantz · 1998

Survey 2

Kunst der Moderne (1800-1945) im Städel Museum

Hatje Cantz · 2016

Vincent van Gogh und der Expressionismus

Hatje Cantz · 2006

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Past Exhibitions8

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#3,090 Galerie Henze & Ketterer

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner reinvents himself The change to the 'New Style' in the middle of the Davos years

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Kirchstrasse 26, 3114 Wichtrach, Switzerland

Oct 21, 2025 — Jan 19, 2026

Ian Potter Centre

2025 NGV Annual Appeal

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel

Federation Square, Flinders St &, Russell St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

Jan 1, 2025

2025 NGV Annual Appeal Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Kirchner : The German Expressionist

#1,100 Bailly Gallery

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

10, rue de l'Hôtel de Ville

Sep 2, 2024 — Nov 29, 2024

Leopold Museum

GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM

Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, August Macke, Franz Marc, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Paul Klee, Lionel Feininger

Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, Austria

Jan 1, 2019

GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM THE BRAGLIA AND JOHENNING COLLECTIONS 15th Nov. 2019 to 20th Apr. 2020 EXTENDED UNTIL AUGUST 30th!

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. | Staatsgalerie Untertitel The unknown collection

#6,728 14-1 Galerie

Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 30-32, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany

Jun 29, 2018 — Sep 27, 2018

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. | Staatsgalerie Untertitel The unknown collection

#6,680 Deck Galerie für aktuelle Kunst

Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 30-32, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany

Jun 29, 2018 — Sep 27, 2018

Leopold Museum

A RUSH OF COLOR

Alexej von Jawlensky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Mueller, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Alexey von Jawlensky, Franz Marc, Christian Rohlfs, Gabriele Münter, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt

Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, Austria

Jan 1, 2016

A RUSH OF COLOR Masterpieces of German Expressionism 9th October to 11th January 2016

The Great War: Art on the Front Line

Toledo Museum of Art

Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Childe Hassam, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz

2445 Monroe St, Toledo, OH 43620, USA

Jul 25, 2014 — Oct 19, 2014

Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Childe Hassam, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz — July 25, 2014 – Oct. 19, 2014