# Mountain Landscape with Fir Trees

- By: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880–1938)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.86)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.86/1963.86_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.