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"tombstone": "White Dancer in a Small Nightclub, 1914. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880\u20131938). Lithograph; image: 59 x 50 cm (23 1/4 x 19 11/16 in.); sheet: 65 x 50 cm (25 9/16 x 19 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2001.38",
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"title": "White Dancer in a Small Nightclub",
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"title": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"title": "Kirchner and the Berlin Street",
"description": "Kirchner and the Berlin Street. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (July 29-November 10, 2008).",
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"title": "Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints",
"description": "Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 17, 2015).",
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"title": "Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper",
"description": "Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018).",
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"description": "Hans Graf von der Goltz, Bad Homburg, Germany; Private Collection, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany [Hauswedell & Nolte Auction 343, 12 June 1949, lot 1851]; [Kurt Delbanco, German dealer]; Alice Adam sold print for Delbanco to CMA",
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"description": "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was fascinated by the tawdry underworld of cabarets and nightclubs near where he lived in Berlin. He printed this nightclub scene from his largest lithographic stone. A high-kicking dancer is both leered at and ignored by a cadre of cigar-smoking men, one of whom, with his face toward the viewer, is Kirchner himself. The cramped space and smoky atmosphere, emphasized by the artist\u2019s rapid, free marks, undermine the token optimism of the bubbles that surround the stage.",
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"citation": "Wye, Deborah, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kirchner and the Berlin Street. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2008.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cNew Acquisitions Now on View at the CMA,\u201d July 11, 2001, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr4396"
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"citation": "Glaubinger, Jane, \"Twentieth-Century Revolution\", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 41 no. 10, December 2001",
"page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8-9",
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"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:52:22.404000"
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