Artist: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880 - 1938). Title: "Die Liebenden". Medium: Crayon and colored pencil drawing on paper. Date: Composed c1922. Dimensions: Overall size: 11 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (295 x 194 mm). Lot Note(s): Signed lower right. Drawn on cream wove paper. Overall good to very good condition; paper loss lower left edge, could be "matted out" by framng. Provenance: By repute, through Fritz Bleyl; Private collection, Berlin. Comment(s): Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. [30156-2-16000]