Mountain Landscape with Fir Trees
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880–1938)
1918/19
- Medium
- graphite and brush and black ink
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 34.6 x 50.7 cm (13 5/8 x 19 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- Germany, 20th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
