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Sick Man at Night / The Sick Man by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Sick Man at Night / The Sick Man

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · 1920

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Palette

Slate blue
 39% of the image
Blue · text contrast 6.2:1
Teal
 28% of the image
Teal · text contrast 4.7:1
Burnt orange
 12% of the image
Orange · text contrast 4.9:1
Sepia
 9% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.6:1
Madder
 8% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.0:1
Dusty rose
 4% of the image
Pink · text contrast 7.6:1

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
1920
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Size
90.5 × 100 cm
Period
20th century
Themes
Night and moonlight
Main colour
Blue · lightness 48, colourfulness 29

"degenerate art" collection; Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte; Sprengel Museum. Commons file page. Public domain. United States: Dated 1920, before 1931 (Commons: PD-old-auto-expired, which states publication before 1931). Europe: Artist died 1938: public domain in the EU since 1 January 2009 (Commons: PD-Art|PD-old-auto-expired|deathyear=1938). Last checked 2026-10-31 (Commons file carries EU and US public-domain templates: yes). Image: a faithful photographic reproduction of a public-domain work, from Wikimedia Commons (PD-Art). Licence rules

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