Knaben am See. 1919.
Black and blue Chalk drawing.
Signed in lower right, verso with the estate stamp (Lugt 1570b) and the hand-written number "K Da/Bc 19". On copper plate printing paper, partly rebacked by the artist with creme wove paper. 33.5 x 52.7 cm (13.1 x 20.7 in), the full sheet.
Verso with fragments of a pencil sketch. [CH].
• First published in 1925.
• Preliminary chalk drawing for the painting "Am Bergsee" (Gordon 562) from the same year.
• Kirchner captures the mountain panorama on paper with such an enormous emotional will to create that it cannot withstand the artist's strong lines in places of the margins.
• Almost geometrically abstracted Davos alpine landscape.
• Interesting overall composition of landscape in the middle and background and figure scene in the foreground.

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

PROVENANCE: From the artist's estate.
Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern.
Private collection Northern Germany (acquired from aforementioned in 2000).

EXHIBITION: Im Zentrum. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - eine Hamburger Privatsammlung, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, October 26, 2001 - January 13., 2002; Kirchner Museum, Davos, January 27 - April 14, 2002; Brücke-Museum, Berlin, January 17 - March 2, 2003, cat. no. 71 (with full-page illu. on p. 72).

LITERATURE: Will Grohmann, Zeichnungen von Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Dresden 1925 (with illu., plate 80).
Galerie Henze & Ketterer (editor), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner zum 120. Geburtstag. Gemälde, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Wichtrach 2000, cat. no. 41 (with illu.).