Art, literature & history
Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte: Kämpfe. Qualen der Liebe (Peter Schlemihl's Wondrous Story: Battles. The Agonies of Love)
1915
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- color woodcut from two blocks on wove paper
- Dimensions
- block: 33.2 x 21.8 cm (13 1/16 x 8 9/16 in.) sheet: 40.9 x 35 cm (16 1/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1999.68.4
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte: Kämpfe. Qualen der Liebe (Peter Schlemihl's Wondrous Story: Battles. The Agonies of Love). 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,_Peter_Schlemihls_wundersame_Geschichte_-_K%C3%A4mpfe._Qualen_der_Liebe_(Peter_Schlemihl%27s_Wondrous_Story_-_Battles._The_Agonies_of_Love),_1915,_NGA_110094.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte: Kämpfe. Qualen der Liebe (Peter Schlemihl's Wondrous Story: Battles. The Agonies of Love) — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. 1915.
Medium: color woodcut from two blocks on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): block: 33.2 x 21.8 cm (13 1/16 x 8 9/16 in.) sheet: 40.9 x 35 cm (16 1/8 x 13 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1999.68.4. New Century Fund and Gift of Ruth and Jacob Kainen.
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.