Forest Interior. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
signed E.L. Kirchner (lower right)
oil on canvas
178 by 135cm.
70 1/8 by 53 1/8 in.
Painted in 1937.
Provenance
Dr H. Stöcklin, Davos (acquired by 1952)
Sale: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Stuttgart, March/April 1953, lot 16
Dr Walter Leder, Winterthur (acquired by 1968)
Thence by descent
Exhibited
Davos, Kunstgesellschaft, Schulhaus Davos-Platz, Graubünden in der Malerei und Gedächtnisausstellung E. L. Kirchner, 1938, no. 118
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Kirchner, 1952, no. 70
Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, 1953 (on loan or exhibition - to check)
Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Kirchner, 1956, no. 31
Seattle, Seattle Art Museum; Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum & Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1968-69, no. 69, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Zurich, Kunsthaus & Munich, Haus der Kunst, Die dreissiger Jahre - Schauplatz Deutschland, 1977, no. 33 (titled as Hommage à Klee and as dating from 1935-36)
Literature
Letter from Kirchner to Dr Carl Hagemann, 28th August/September 1937
Erhard Branger, 'Zu Kirchners Bergbildern', in Davoser Revue, no. XIII, 9th June 1938, p. 191
Donald E. Gordon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968, no. 1017, illustrated p. 414; illustrated in colour pl. XXVIII
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