Hügel bei Moritzburg. Um 1909/10.
Pen and India ink- and ink brush drawing.
On fine wove paper. 11.8 x 19.5 cm (4.6 x 7.6 in), size of sheet.
[CH/AR].

• From the sought-after, particularly fruitful Dresden "Brücke" period.
• During their stays at the Moritzburg Ponds (1909-1911), the "Brücke" artists created particularly innovative, expressive and pioneering works for Expressionism.
• Kirchner depicted the hilly landscape around the Moritzburg Ponds in his depictions of bathing nudes; the landscape sketched here is particularly similar to the hilly background in "Vier Badende" (1910, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Gordon 95).
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and the "Brücke" artists focused on the medium of drawing, particularly in the Dresden years.

PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 147, SHG no. 137 (illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 308, SHG no. 699 (illu.).

In good condition. With a faint diagonal crease in the right half of the sheet and with slight handling marks. Very slightly browned and with isolated stains.