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Self-Portrait by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Self-Portrait

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · 1928

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Palette

Putty
 55% of the image
Grey · text contrast 8.1:1
Graphite
 27% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.3:1
Slate blue
 6% of the image
Purple · text contrast 6.1:1
Bone white
 5% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.4:1
Blue-grey
 4% of the image
Teal · text contrast 5.4:1
Pale gold
 2% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 11.8:1

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
1928
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
brush and ink with watercolor over black crayon on paper
Size
overall: 46.8 x 37.5 cm (18 7/16 x 14 3/4 in.)
Place
German
Period
20th century
Themes
Portraits · Self-portraits
Main colour
Grey · lightness 56, colourfulness 10

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Ruth Cole 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

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