Lithograph. With the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the handwritten number “L 300 D” on the reverse. One of just six known copies. On yellowish wove paper. 61 x 52 cm. Sheet: 67,7 x 54,4 cm.

• Two of the six known copies of this lithograph are in museum collections today: in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and in the Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern (another one is on permanent loan to the Kirchner Museum, Davos).
• In 1915/16, the artist spent a few weeks at the sanatorium of Dr. Kohnstamm in Königstein im Taunus.
• Before Kirchner turned to this motif more often after moving to Switzerland, he had already captured the pointed dense pine forest of the Taunus hills in his work.
• In the same year, Kirchner created a painting of the same name (Gordon 452, destroyed in 1945), as well as a related sketch (Presler Skb 52/55) and a woodcut (Gercken 790).
LITERATURE: Günther Gercken, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. 3 (1912-1916), Bern 2015, p. 285, cat. rais. no. 792 (illustrated) Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube, E. L. Kirchner. Das graphische Werk, Munich 1967, cat. rais. no. L 312. Gustav Schiefler, Die Graphik Ernst Ludwig Kirchners, vol. 1 (until 1916), Berlin-Charlottenburg 1926, cat. rais. no. 300.