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Lot Essay
This work is listed in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archives, Witchtrach/Bern.
The present picture was executed in 1912 when Kirchner spent the summer with Erna Schilling on the island of Fehmarn in the Baltic Sea. The scenic island provided him with a range of subjects which he executed not only as drawings and watercolours but also in oil. In a letter to Gustav Schiefler dated 31 December 1912, Kirchner wrote: '... ich habe dort Bilder gemalt von absoluter Reife, soweit ich das selbst beurteilen kann. Ocker, blau und grn sind die Farben von Fehmarn, wundervolle Kstenbildung manchmal von Sdseereichtum...' (Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gustav Schiefler, Briefwechsel 1910-1935/38, W. Henze ed., Stuttgart 1990, p. 61).
The present picture was executed in 1912 when Kirchner spent the summer with Erna Schilling on the island of Fehmarn in the Baltic Sea. The scenic island provided him with a range of subjects which he executed not only as drawings and watercolours but also in oil. In a letter to Gustav Schiefler dated 31 December 1912, Kirchner wrote: '... ich habe dort Bilder gemalt von absoluter Reife, soweit ich das selbst beurteilen kann. Ocker, blau und grn sind die Farben von Fehmarn, wundervolle Kstenbildung manchmal von Sdseereichtum...' (Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gustav Schiefler, Briefwechsel 1910-1935/38, W. Henze ed., Stuttgart 1990, p. 61).