Art, literature & history
Head of van de Velde, Bright (Kopf van de Velde, Hell)
1917
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- woodcut
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.5183
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Head of van de Velde, Bright (Kopf van de Velde, Hell). Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ernst_Ludwig_Kirchner,_Head_of_van_de_Velde,_Bright_(Kopf_van_de_Velde,_Hell),_1917,_NGA_8105.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Head of van de Velde, Bright (Kopf van de Velde, Hell) — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. 1917.
Medium: woodcut.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): .
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.5183. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.