Lot Essay
A photograph of this work, in an earlier state, is conserved in the Kirchner Archives, Berne, under no. 582.
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Bergwald
Details
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)
Bergwald
signed and dated 'E L Kirchner 18' (upper left); with the Nachlass stamp, signed again, titled and indinstinctly inscribed 'Bergwald E.L. Kirchner [...]' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
47 x 35 5/8 in. (119.4 x 90.5 cm.)
Painted in 1919-1920
Bergwald
signed and dated 'E L Kirchner 18' (upper left); with the Nachlass stamp, signed again, titled and indinstinctly inscribed 'Bergwald E.L. Kirchner [...]' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
47 x 35 5/8 in. (119.4 x 90.5 cm.)
Painted in 1919-1920
Provenance
The artist's estate (no.'Da/Aa19').
Ernesto Blohm, Caracas, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Ernesto Blohm, Caracas, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Diary, 10 August 1919, p. 44.
C. Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1926 (illustrated p. 384).
D.E. Gordon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1968, Cambridge, MA, no. 582 (illustrated p. 351).
C. Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1926 (illustrated p. 384).
D.E. Gordon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1968, Cambridge, MA, no. 582 (illustrated p. 351).
Exhibited
Berlin, Nationalgalerie, on loan September 1966 - August 2006.
Ontario, The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Mystic North; Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America 1890-1940, January - March 1984, no. 66; this exhibition later travelled to Cincinnati, Art Museum, March - May 1984.
Ontario, The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Mystic North; Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America 1890-1940, January - March 1984, no. 66; this exhibition later travelled to Cincinnati, Art Museum, March - May 1984.
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