Kinderbild. Erdmute und Hans-Herbert Esche

1905

Edvard Munch1863 Løiten (Hedmark) – 1944 Ekely (Oslo)
We have 29 artworks by Edvard Munch online.
We have 1705 paintings online.
When the Esche couple saw the group portrait by Munch at Dr. Linde's in Lübeck of his four boys (today in the Lübeck Museum, see Edvard Munch and Lübeck (exh. cat. Lübeck 2003)) , the desire arose for a corresponding picture of their own children Hans-Herbert (1900-1976) and Erdmute (inv. 1997/12). It forms the center of the eight paintings that Munch created in Chemnitz in the fall of 1905, see inv. 1997/10. The frame was probably designed by Henry van de Velde.
Also known as
Portrait of Children: Erdmute and Hans-Herbert Esche Enfants. Erdmute et Hans-Herbert Esche Esches barn [original]
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 148 x 162.5 cm
Inventory number
1997/0013
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Deposited by the Herbert Eugen Esche Foundation, 1997