Pencil drawing. With the estate stamp of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Lugt 1570 b) and the handwritten registration number "B Be/Bf 72" on the reverse. On wove paper. 56.5 x 45 cm. , size of sheet. [CH].
- From the sought-after creative years in Berlin. - E. L. Kirchner spent the summer of 1913 with his partner Erna Schilling on the island of Fehmarn, his beloved retreat far away from the Berlin hustle and bustle. - In the summer of 1913, only a few months after the artists' group had disbanded, Kirchner's former "Brücke" colleague Otto Mueller and his wife Maschka came to Fehmarn for a visit. - Uninhibited nudity in nature was an important source of inspiration for E. L. Kirchner and his fellow "Brücke" artists and characteristic of their expressionist work. - In the same year, Kirchner also painted "Badende am Strand, Fehmarn" (Bathers on the Beach, Fehnmarn) (Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin).
The work is documented at the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive in Wichtrach/Bern, Switzerland.
LITERATURE: Ketterer Kunst, Munich, auction 197, Modern Art II, June 6, 1994, lot 144 (illu.).