Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte: Schlemihls Begegnung mit dem Schatten (Peter Schlemihl's Wondrous Story: Schlemihl's Encounter with His Shadow)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · 1915

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Palette

Ivory
47% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.2:1

Iron
26% of the image
Grey · text contrast 9.9:1

Peacock
9% of the image
Teal · text contrast 6.5:1

Bronze
9% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 5.3:1

Tan
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.0:1

Sienna
3% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.6:1

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
1880–1938
Date: 1915
Type: Print
Medium: color woodcut on wove paper
Size: block: 31 x 29.3 cm (12 3/16 x 11 9/16 in.)
Place: German
Period: 20th century
Main colour: White & cream · lightness 64, colourfulness 16

National Gallery of Art, Washington, New Century Fund and Gift of Ruth and Jacob Kainen. Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1938: public domain in the EU since 1 January 2009. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules