Badeszene unter berhngenden Baumzweigen , like Liegender Akte am Meer (lot 241), is a product of Kirchner's summer visits to the Baltic island of Fehmarn. Inspired by the natural world around him, the work he produced is in contrast to the contemporary urban Berlin subjects, the Strassenszene in particular (see lot 242), although one might see an echo of the city in the hatted man, a figure which had apeared in an oil of the year before (see comparative illustration below)