x1957-130: Two Bathing Girls

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German, 1880–1938
Place made: Germany

Two Bathing Girls, 1925

Etching with brush, black and gray wash on white-clay-coated paper
plate: 31.1 x 25 cm. (12 1/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
sheet: 37.5 x 34.3 cm. (14 3/4 x 13 1/2 in.)
Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund
x1957-130
Dube 526
By 1911, Kirchner, Heckel, and Schmidt-Rottluff had moved to Berlin to pursue individual careers, and Die Brücke had ceased to exist as a unified movement—yet, independently, each artist maintained a style that respected the rigor of his expressionist origins. Kirchner continued to be an innovative, prolific printmaker, ultimately producing more than two thousand woodcuts, etchings, and lithographs.