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The Sea near Staberhuk
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880–1938)
1908
- Medium
- lithograph
- Classification
- Culture
- Germany, 20th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Louise S. Richards in honor of William Mathewson Milliken on his 85th year
- 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
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner made this print during the first year that he learned the lithographic process. In contrast to convention, he wished to make it immediately apparent that a lithograph was not a drawing. To do so, he used lithographic wash to draw right to the edges of the stone, abruptly cutting off the composition and emphasizing the stone’s irregular contour with inked edges. The spontaneity of the quickly drawn marks that mimic the weather and wind of the sea, coupled with the emphasis on the materiality of the stone, matched Kirchner’s quest for truth in his art.
