Black and color Chalk drawing. On creme paper. 16.8 x 21.1 cm. , the full sheet. [CH].
- Dynamic, expressive drawing from the creative period shortly after Kirchner's relocation to Davos. - The life of the local farming families and the bucolic idyll of the Swiss mountains were important sources of inspiration for Kirchner during these years. - In the 1920s, he created several paintings of the houses in and around Davos and the Alpine landscape, featuring figures in the foreground (Kirchner Museum Davos, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen etc.).
This work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 271, SHG no. 395 (illu.). Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 350, SHG no. 783 (illu.).