Woodcut. Inscribed "Eigendruck" and "I". Inscribed with the artist's name by Erna Schilling. Dated "15" and titled on the reverse. There also with teh estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the hand-written registration number "H 249 I". One of only eight known copies and the only known copy from this first, original printing state. Auf Velin. 47.5 x 34.5 cm. Sheet: 56 x 36,5 cm.
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- The only known copy from the first, original state of printing and one of only eight known copies of this woodcut in total. - One of these eight known copies is in the collection of the Sprengel Museum, Hanover. - In 1915/1916, the artist spent several weeks at the Dr. Kohnstamm Sanatorium in Königstein im Taunus. - Before Kirchner devoted himself to this motif more frequently after his move to Switzerland, he had already made the pointed forms of the dense fir forest in the Taunus Mountains the subject of his depiction. - In the same year, Kirchner created a painting of the same name (Gordon 452, burned in 1945) as well as a sketch of the same name with a related motif (Presler Skb 52/55) and two lithographs (Gercken 792/793).
LITERATURE: Günther Gercken, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kritisches Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, vol. 3. (1912-1916), Bern 2015, no. 790 I (of III) (illu.). Annemarie and Wolf-Dieter Dube, E. L. Kirchner. Das graphische Werk, Munich 1967, no. H 298. - - Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 266, SHG no. 387 (illu.). Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 344, SHG no. 773 (illu.).