Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Works Online
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Original works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan 3 works online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Kirchner Museum Davos, Switzerland (mostly in German) 
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Many works online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Nude Dancers, 1909 (In the "Woodcut" section)
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2 works online
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 24 works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Head of a sick person (self-portrait)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Street Scene with two cocottes
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Nude Girl Variété (English Couple Dancing)
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio Standing Female Nude
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio Self-Portrait as a Soldier
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana Head of Girde
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany Girl Squatting
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brücke Museum, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Gewecke und Erna, 1913
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German)  Der rote Turm in Halle, 1915
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German)  Rappenhengst, lithograph, 1907
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg Move the date slider forward to about 1910 to see 2 works by Kirchner
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Hammer Museum, California Stadtbahnbogen (Tramway Arch), 1915
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project 2 works online
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (in German)  2 paintings online
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (in German) 
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Alphabetically under "K"
Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland (mostly in German)  Alpaufzug, 1918/19
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin Street at Schönberg City Park
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (You need to click the "right" arrow once)
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) 
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project 4 works by Kirchner
Museumslandschaft Hessen, Germany (in German) 
Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art, New York City 3 works online
Nickle Arts Museum at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian) 
Portland Museum of Art, Maine Click thumbnail #2
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri 9 works online
Seattle Art Museum
Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts Dodo and Her Brother
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)  Talkessel mit Häusern und Bahnlinie, 1917
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  Red Cocotte
State Museums of Berlin
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam Nude Behind a Curtain (Fränzi), 1910
Stiftung Moritzburg, Moritzburg, Germany (in German)  Das blaue Mädchen in der Sonne (Blue Girl in the Sun), 1910
The Albertina, Vienna Female Nude (Dodo), 1909
The Albertina, Vienna Mueggelsee, 1912
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner at the The British Museum, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid - to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version" - images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German) 
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisberg, Germany
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch) 
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures Scroll down to signature 214
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW! (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales A total of 3 works online as you scroll down the page
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW! (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in the Artchive
Google Art Project NEW! Fränzi in front of Carved Chair (Museo Thyssen - Bornemisza, Madrid)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner at The Athenaeum 5 works online
AICT: Art Images for College Teaching Street, Berlin, 1913 Woman at the Mirror, 1912
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Art of the First World War
Kilidavid
The BBC ernst ludwig kirchner 'expressionism and the city'
The Modernist Journals Project (Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Theobald Jennings Fine Art Dealers, London, UK -- Notable past sales Funf Kokotten
Theobald Jennings Fine Art Dealers, London, UK -- Notable past sales Kopf des Kranken
Articles and Reference Sites:
Answers.com reference works  The "Art Encyclopedia" entry is from the Concise Grove Dictionary of Art (2002). The "Photography Encyclopedia" entry is from the The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005).
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Ernst Ludwig Kirchner  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) 
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "All the young nudes", 2003 article by Adrian Searle
The New York Observer "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Painted 20th Century As Terrible Bridge", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "Berlin Street Scene" at the Neue Gallery, brief 2007 review by Peter Schjeldahl
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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