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Wrestlers in a Circus by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Wrestlers in a Circus

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · 1909

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Palette

Cinnamon
 31% of the image
Brown · text contrast 5.0:1
Graphite
 21% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.2:1
Green earth
 19% of the image
Green · text contrast 4.6:1
Dark ochre
 16% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 4.7:1
Indigo
 8% of the image
Blue · text contrast 11.6:1
Chestnut
 6% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.1:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German, 1880–1938
Date
1909
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
Unframed: 80.5 x 94 cm (31 11/16 x 37 in.)
Place
Germany, 20th century
Period
20th century
Main colour
Brown · lightness 40, colourfulness 25

Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Cleveland Museum of Art marks it public domain (share_license_status = CC0). Europe: Artist died 1938: public domain in the EU since 1 January 2009. Last checked 2026-10-31 (share_license_status is CC0: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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