Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Lot n° 40

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Hay harvest. 1920. Colored oil pastel. Verso with the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the handwritten registration number "FS Da/Bc 29". On chalk-grounded cardboard. 50 x 31.6 cm (19.6 x 12.4 in), nearly sheet size. [CH]. - Dynamic momentary and especially colorful depiction from the Davos period. - The hard, laborious life of the peasant families living there and the village-bucolic idyll are important sources of inspiration for Kirchner during these years. - The impressive and motivically related painting "The Mower" (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) was also created at the same time. We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerd Presler for his advice and support in editing this work. The present work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern. PROVENIENCE: Estate of the artist (Davos 1938, Kunstmuseum Basel 1946). Collection Hermann Gerlinger, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp). EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holstein Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001). Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017). Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022). LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 271, SHG no. 396 (m. ill.). Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Bestandskatalog Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 350, SHG no. 784 (m. ill.). "Kirchner has left the turbulent life - first in Dresden, then in Berlin - behind, lives in the house "In den Lärchen" above Frauenkirch/Davos among 'proud' mountain farmers, observes their hard, laborious everyday life. Around him the grandiose mountain world in the shadow of the Tinzenhorn, the 'guardian at the end of the valley'. In September 1918 he writes to the architect Henry van de Velde: 'So I live here quite quietly and well.' A little later, he tells the author of his catalog raisonné of prints, the Hamburg district court director Gustav Schiefler: 'I am so happy to be here.' The colored drawing 'Heuernte' breathes this balanced life situation of Kirchner. He has arrived!" Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerd Presler, author of the catalogue raisonné of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's sketchbooks. Call time: 10.06.2022 - approx. 18.18 h +/- 20 min.