Watercolor , color chalks and pencil. With the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the handwritten registration number "A Dre / Aa 36" on the reverse. On wove paper. 27 x 34.6 cm. , the full sheet. [CH].
- Between Dresden and Berlin: a work from the "Brücke" heyday (1905-1913). - Landscape and nature were key sources of inspiration for E. L. Kirchner and his fellow "Brücke" artists. - In the summer of 1911, Kirchner and his "Brücke" fellow Otto Mueller with his wife Maria ("Maschka") visited the painter Willy Nowak in Mníšek pod Brdy (Mnischek) in Bohemia. - Motif and expression of this drawing are closely related to Kirchner works created at the Moritzburg Ponds (1909-1911) near Dresden around the same time. - During his trip to Bohemia, the artist painted, among other things, the closely related painting "Böhmischer Waldsee" (1911, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich) and also designed a postcard for Erich Heckel with a very similar composition (July 26, 1911, Altonaer Museum, Hamburg).
This work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.
LITERATURE: Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, auction 87, November 26, 1984, p. 130, lot 771 (illu.). Galeria Henze, Campione d'Italia 1987, cat. no. 5 (illu.) Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Moderne Kunst, auction 847, November 26, 2003, p. 56, lot 759 (illu. in color).