Obstbäume und Hügel bei Golberode. 1907.
Lithograph.
Signed. Monogrammed in printing block. One of only six known copies. On slightly greenish wove paper. 44.5 x 35.3 cm (17.5 x 13.8 in). Sheet: 44,5 x 35,3 cm (17,5 x 13,8 in).
[CH].

• From the early Dresden "Brücke" period.
• One of only six known copies, three of which are in museum collections: in the Fogg Museum of the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge/Mass., in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and in the Museum Folkwang, Essen.
• In the same year, Kirchner also painted "Dorfstraße mit Apfelbäumen", "Grünes Haus" and "Obstbäume".
• In the summer of 1907, the year of its creation, Kirchner stayed and worked with Max Pechstein in Gollberode and Goppeln on the southern slopes of Dresden's Elbe Valley.

The work is registered in the Hermann Gerlinger Collection with the number SHG 677 (new) (with the collector's stamp on the reverse).

PROVENANCE: Städelsches Kunstinstitut and Städtische Galerie Frankfurt am Main (gifted in 1916, until 1937).
Statw-owned (1937-1940, "Degenerate Art", number 690).
Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin (with the stamp on the reverse, in an exchange from the above in 1940).
Private collection Ferdinand Möller, Zermützel (1943-1949).
Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt am Main.
Private collection USA.
Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032, acquired in 2014).

EXHIBITION: 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: Günther Gercken, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. 1 (1904-1908), Bern 2013, no. 195 II (of II) (illu.).
Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube, E. L. Kirchner. Das graphische Werk, Munich 1967, no. L 42 II.
Gustav Schiefler, Die Graphik Ernst Ludwig Kirchners, vol. 1 (to 1916), Berlin-Charlottenburg 1926, no. L 31
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www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/db_entart_kunst/datenbank (no. 690).
Karl & Faber Munich, auction 151, November 30, 1979, no. 1600.
Kurt Reutti, Werke aus der Aktion "Entartete Kunst". Ferdinand Möller [impounded in November 1946], typescript Berlin 1946-1951, (SMBK-ZA, V/ Sachthemat. Slg. 69).
Franz Roh, "Entartete" Kunst. Kunstbarbarei im Dritten Reich, Hanover 1962, p. 187.
Karl & Faber, Munich, 256th auction, June 5, 2014, lot 501 (illu.).

In very good condition. Minimally light-stained. Edges with very few tiny tears (up to 2 mm). Lower left corner with a slight waterstain outside the image. The lower right corner with a diagonal crease.