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Jakob Bosshart: Neben der Heerstrasse (Jakob Bosshart: Near Main Street)

Jakob Bosshart: Neben der Heerstrasse (Jakob Bosshart: Near Main Street)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · 1922

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Palette

Charcoal
48% of the image
Black · text contrast 12.8:1

Crimson
35% of the image
Red · text contrast 6.6:1

Oxblood
9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 10.8:1

Pale stone
5% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 12.1:1

Flamingo
1% of the image
Pink · text contrast 5.3:1

Taupe
1% of the image
Brown · text contrast 4.6:1

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: 1922
Type: Print
Medium: color woodcut proof on red paper for the dust jacket
Size: image: 20.3 x 37.3 cm (8 x 14 11/16 in.)
Place: German
Period: 20th century
Themes: Cities and streets
Main colour: Red · lightness 32, colourfulness 28

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