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Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte: Begegnung Schlemihls mit dem grauen Männlein auf der Landstrasse (Peter Schlemihl's Wondrous Story: Schlemihl Encounters the Little Gray Man on the Road)
1915
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- color woodcut on wove paper
- Dimensions
- block: 29.9 x 29.7 cm (11 3/4 x 11 11/16 in.) overall: 41.3 x 35.4 cm (16 1/4 x 13 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1999.68.6
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte: Begegnung Schlemihls mit dem grauen Männlein auf der Landstrasse (Peter Schlemihl's Wondrous Story: Schlemihl Encounters the Little Gray Man on the Road). Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; New Century Fund and Gift of Ruth and Jacob Kainen. 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: Begegnung Schlemihls mit dem grauen Männlein auf der Landstrasse (Peter Schlemihl's Wondrous Story: Schlemihl Encounters the Little Gray Man on the Road) — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. 1915.
Medium: color woodcut on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): block: 29.9 x 29.7 cm (11 3/4 x 11 11/16 in.) overall: 41.3 x 35.4 cm (16 1/4 x 13 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1999.68.6. 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.