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Dancers in Studio

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

1911

ink

From the collection of National Gallery of Art

Early Modern Dancing

Dominant colour

Dancers in Studio is a 1911 ink by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, depicting Dancing, held at National Gallery of Art.

Who painted this?: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
When & what style?: 1911
Where can I see it?: National Gallery of Art

About this work

You see a group of dancers practicing in a studio. The room is small and plain. The dancers wear simple clothes and move with loose energy. This is a drypoint print, a type of engraving. Kirchner scratched lines into a metal plate, then inked it. The lines look scratchy and raw, not smooth. It feels like a quick snapshot of real life. Look for Kirchner’s bold style in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.