Stafelalp (Berglandschaft bei Davos mit Berghütte). Um 1923.
Colored chalk drawing.
Upper right with the beraly legible estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the hand-written registration number "H 298 I“. On firm wove paper. 46.2 x 58.8 cm (18.1 x 23.1 in), nearly the full sheet.
Verso: Kopf Dr. Ludwig Binswanger mit Kindern, 1918, woodcut, Gercken 900, signed and inscribed "Probedruck I“. One of 9 copies mentioned by Gercken. [AM].
• Remarkable graphic expressiveness.
• Kirchner increases the panorama's intensity through a limited palette.
• The great expressionist's mastery becomes particularly obvious in his spontaneous drawings.

This work is documented at the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.

PROVENANCE: Artist's estate (Davos 1938, Kunstmuseum Basel 1946).
Private collection Berlin (March 17, 1976).
Private collection Hesse.

LITERATURE: Karl & Faber, Munich, May 23, 1969, lot 1061 (with illu.).
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, June 7, 1974, lot 947 (with illu.).