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The image features a landscape with a windmill in the distance. The horizon line is central, and a windmill stands slightly off-center to the right. The brushstrokes are bold and loose, creating abstract forms, especially in the clouds and landforms. The color palette is monochrome, using shades of dark black on a beige background, highlighting texture and shapes.

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Windmill near Burg on Fehmarn

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880 - 1938)

1908

Medium: lithograph in black on thin japan paper
Classification: Print
Dimensions: image: 33.3 x 40.6 cm (13 1/8 x 16 in.) ; sheet: 40.2 x 47.6 cm (15 13/16 x 18 3/4 in.)
Culture: German
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line: Ruth and Jacob Kainen Collection, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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