# The Sea near Staberhuk

- By: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880–1938)
- Date: 1908
- Medium: lithograph
- Classification: Print
- Culture: Germany, 20th century
- Credit line: Gift of Louise S. Richards in honor of William Mathewson Milliken on his 85th year
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.104)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1974.104/1974.104_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)

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.