Virginia Museum of Art acquires work by German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Taunus Road (Autostrasse im Taunus), 1916. Collection of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
RICHMOND, VA
.-The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced today that it has acquired a major work by German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The oil painting, completed in 1916, is entitled Taunus Road (German: Autostrasse im Taunus). In September 2020, a private collector in Germany made the fair and just decision to restitute Kirchners painting to the Fischer family descendants who have donated it to VMFA through a gift-purchase arrangement.
We are pleased that this painting, Taunus Road, was returned to the Fischer family and that it joins other paintings by Kirchner in the Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, said Alex Nyerges, VMFAs Director and CEO. The donation of this painting is the realization of a long-term commitment on behalf of both
Taunus Road (German:
Autostrasse im Taunus). In September 2020, a private collector in Germany made the fair and just decision to restitute Kirchner’s painting to the Fischer family descendants who have donated it to VMFA through a gift-purchase arrangement.
“We are pleased that this painting,
Taunus Road, was returned to the Fischer family and that it joins other paintings by Kirchner in the Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,” said Alex Nyerges, VMFA’s Director and CEO. “The donation of this painting is the realization of a long-term commitment on behalf of both the Fischer family and VMFA to reunite restituted works from the Fischer Collection.”
Major new study celebrates the career and legacy of trailblazing artist and educator Luise Kaish
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