In saturated, vivid tones of mint green, marigold orange, dandelion yellow, sky blue, and rose pink, a long building stretches away from us along a walkway. The narrow end of the building facing us to the right is orange, and the long side is frosty green. The roof is painted garnet red, and the windows are created with slashes of midnight blue and dark red outlined with topaz blue. A wall enclosing the structure is lemon-lime yellow, and a fence in front of that is painted ultramarine blue. The walkway beneath the fence is pink and, to the left of that, pale blue. Two trees painted with twisting lines of ruby red, shamrock green, black, and off white edge into the scene along the left side, and the sky is lapis blue around a mint-green halo that surrounds the building’s roofline and walls. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes throughout.

Dance Hall Bellevue [obverse]

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

In saturated, vivid tones of mint green, marigold orange, dandelion yellow, sky blue, and rose pink, a long building stretches away from us along a walkway. The narrow end of the building facing us to the right is orange, and the long side is frosty green. The roof is painted garnet red, and the windows are created with slashes of midnight blue and dark red outlined with topaz blue. A wall enclosing the structure is lemon-lime yellow, and a fence in front of that is painted ultramarine blue. The walkway beneath the fence is pink and, to the left of that, pale blue. Two trees painted with twisting lines of ruby red, shamrock green, black, and off white edge into the scene along the left side, and the sky is lapis blue around a mint-green halo that surrounds the building’s roofline and walls. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes throughout.

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Details
Artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Date
1909/1910
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 56 x 90 cm (22 1/16 x 35 7/16 in.) framed: 83.2 x 113 x 6.3 cm (32 3/4 x 44 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)
Department
CMC
Holding institution
National Gallery of Art
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Image provider
national-gallery-of-art
License
CC0-1.0
Credit
Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Art Genome Taxonomy

6 tags

Styles and Movements

  • Expressionism Interpretive · 93%

    The combination of saturated non-naturalistic color, angular contours, and forceful visible brushwork aligns the work with Expressionist visual language. The museum metadata does not specify a style.

Visual Qualities

  • Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 99%

    The image is dominated by saturated mint green, orange, yellow, ultramarine and lapis blue, rose pink, and red passages.

  • Angular Visual · 94%

    The rooflines, building edges, windows, fence, and receding walkway are articulated through pronounced diagonals and angular contours.

Medium and Techniques

  • Oil Painting Metadata · 99%

    The National Gallery of Art records the medium as oil on canvas.

  • Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 98%

    Broad, energetic strokes remain clearly visible across the sky, roof, walls, walkway, and foreground, producing a loose, actively worked surface.

Time Periods

  • 1900 - 1917 Art Metadata · 99%

    The catalog dates the work to 1909/1910, which falls within the 1900–1917 period.

Source & rights

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Dance Hall Bellevue [obverse]. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.

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