Cleveland Museum of Art
Mountain Landscape with Fir Trees
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Date
- 1918/19
- Medium
- graphite and brush and black ink
- Culture
- Germany, 20th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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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