23/7/21 – Acquisitions – Virginia Museum of Fine Arts – It was one of those works considered lost during the Nazi occupation. A Kirchner canvas, Taunus Route, joined the collections of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA). It was owned by a German collector who returned it to the Fischer family in 2020, who themselves gave it to the museum according to a ” gift-purchase arrangement » (ill. 1) .
- 1. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
Route du Taunus (Autostrasse im Taunus), 1916
Oil on canvas – 71.5 x 59.5 cm
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Ludwig and Rosy Fischer lived in Frankfurt and between 1905 and 1926 built up an exceptional collection of German expressionist art, with a predilection for the artists of Die Brücke. They died in 1922 and 1926 respectively, and their two sons, Ernst and Max, shared their collection, which nonetheless included some 500 paintings, sculptures, watercolors, drawings and engravings. The Nazis came to power; Ernst, who worked at the University of Medicine, left the country in 1934 and settled in Richmond, Virginia. He took with him more than 200 works of art inherited from his parents – creations of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Wassily Kandinsky, August Macke and many others – which, according to his desire, were purchased by the VMFA after the death of his wife, Anne, in 2009 (ill. 2).
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- 2. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
Six dancers, 1911
Oil on canvas – 95.2 × 125.1 cm
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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- Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
South Seas Landscape, c. 1914-15
Oil on canvas – 71.8 × 87 cm
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Max, who was a journalist, left Germany later, in 1935, and was only able to take with him a few paintings, in particular …
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