Lot 142 
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142
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Taunuslandschaft, Ca. 1915.
Pencil drawing
Estimate:
€ 6,000 / $ 7,080 Sold:
€ 6,858 / $ 8,092 (incl. surcharge)
Taunuslandschaft. Ca. 1915.
Pencil drawing.
On wove paper. 16.7 x 20.6 cm (6.5 x 8.1 in), the full sheet. [EH].
• With its dynamic, energetic brushwork, the drawing is rooted in the artist's Berlin years during World War I.
• The closely related paintings “Bahnhof in Königstein” (Gordon 469) and “Eisenbahn im Taunus” (Gordon 470, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich) were also created in the same year.
• In the winter of 1915/16, the artist spent several weeks at the sanatorium of Dr. Kohnstamm in Königstein im Taunus, returning in the spring of the same year to complete a commission to decorate the well house.
This work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: Lise Gujer Collection, Davos.
Galerie Wolfgang Wittrock, Düsseldorf
Private collection Karin & Rüdiger Volhard (acquired from the above in 1977).
Family-owned ever-since.
Pencil drawing.
On wove paper. 16.7 x 20.6 cm (6.5 x 8.1 in), the full sheet. [EH].
• With its dynamic, energetic brushwork, the drawing is rooted in the artist's Berlin years during World War I.
• The closely related paintings “Bahnhof in Königstein” (Gordon 469) and “Eisenbahn im Taunus” (Gordon 470, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich) were also created in the same year.
• In the winter of 1915/16, the artist spent several weeks at the sanatorium of Dr. Kohnstamm in Königstein im Taunus, returning in the spring of the same year to complete a commission to decorate the well house.
This work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
PROVENANCE: Lise Gujer Collection, Davos.
Galerie Wolfgang Wittrock, Düsseldorf
Private collection Karin & Rüdiger Volhard (acquired from the above in 1977).
Family-owned ever-since.
142
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Taunuslandschaft, Ca. 1915.
Pencil drawing
Estimate:
€ 6,000 / $ 7,080 Sold:
€ 6,858 / $ 8,092 (incl. surcharge)
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