# Mountain Landscape with Fir Trees, in Early modernism

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner drew this in 1918/19, aged about 38. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Following his discharge from the military after a mental and physical breakdown in 1915, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner took refuge at a sanitarium near Davos, Switzerland. The alpine landscape provided a new focus for his work and became a metaphor for his spiritual regeneration.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1918/19
- Medium: graphite and brush and black ink
- Dimensions: Sheet: 34.6 x 50.7 cm (13 5/8 x 19 15/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963.86
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Ernst Ludwig Kirchner](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/ernst-ludwig-kirchner), German, 1880–1938

Kirchner studied architecture in Dresden, where in 1905 he co-founded Die Brücke with fellow students, seeking a raw, direct art of bright, unmixed colour and angular forms. After moving to Berlin in 1911 he painted the city’s streets and nightlife with nervous intensity.

3 works in the collection.

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