In 1917 Kirchner settled in Frauenkirch near Davos. In the period that followed, he put focus on mountain landscapes and depictions of rural life. In Switzerland, Kirchner found joy in depicting his rural environment, which would become an important pictorial object in his works of the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1920s he also found his way back to the technique of drawing with colored chalks, which he had already used in the early drawings from his time in Dresden. With a sure, powerful stroke he describes the village life of the peasants. Kirchner always saw his drawings as independent works. In terms of their effect, they are on a par with works in other media. This work is a characteristic drawing through an dthrough, written very spontaneously, like almost all works of this period; fresh in effect and not subject to compositional calculations, just the way Kirchner had always wanted it to be. He sets the accents consciously and pointedly by using reduced colors.

The peasant's head, drawn with colored chalks on the reverse, shows the great skill of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's draftsmanship in his alla prima drawing. Kirchner dispenses with the preliminary drawing and develops the figure out of the color alone.