Mountain Landscape with Little Mowers

1919

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Associated Names
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artist, German, 1880 - 1938

The image depicts a mountainous landscape with rugged peaks, sketched in expressive strokes. The monochromatic color palette uses shades of black and gray. Sloping terrain leads to the peaks and dark sky. The sky is heavily shaded, contrasting with the lighter tones of the mountains. The style suggests an etching or printmaking technique with textures and strong contrast between light and shadow.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.1 x 24 cm (7 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 28.5 x 44.2 cm (11 1/4 x 17 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.716

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Dube 1967, Vol. (I), no. 244, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Glöckner, Cologne); Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4739), purchased January 10, 1995; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Dube, Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube. E.L. Kirchner; das graphische Werke. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1967, no. (I) 244, ii/ii

Inscriptions

lower left verso by later hand in black ink: KR 47; lower left by later hand in graphite: II, 240

Markings

lower right in black stamp: EL Kirchner (L.570c, see also Dube V.1, p.9); Zoll I 27 (Swiss Customs?)

Watermarks

UTO=BLOTTING

Wikidata ID

Q76557751

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