Cleveland Museum of Art

Mountain Landscape with Fir Trees

Ernst Ludwig KirchnerLinkedCulture matchlcp-4358769136b1

Date: 1918/19
Medium: graphite and brush and black ink
Culture: Germany, 20th century
Department: Drawings
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 140070

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Following his discharge from the military after a mental and physical breakdown in 1915, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner took refuge at a sanitarium near Davos, Switzerland. The alpine landscape provided a new focus for his work and became a metaphor for his spiritual regeneration. Kirchner sketched this scene with black ink swept over graphite. His viewpoint is one of self-absorption, from within the mountain range rather than from above, a subjective view with vigorous marks that imbue the scene with energy.

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Credit line: Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds
Provenance: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Berlin (Lugt 1570b (artist's estate stamp), verso, lower left, in violet ink; notation, by hand, within stamp, in black ink: PDa/Aa 30. [Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Stuttgart]

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