A horse-drawn cart and rider travel down a road through a dense forest
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

A tangle of heavy, roughly scratched, black lines depicts a dense forest. Stacked triangular shapes indicate tall pine trees at upper left and at upper right, while vigorous marks serve as dense undergrowth at lower left. Pale gray washes amid the black marks suggest sunlight filtered through leaves, and thin, curving lines in a light space at right depict a burst of bright foliage. At lower center, viewed from above and behind, a quickly sketched rider sits atop a small horse-drawn cart that moves away from us, down a barely visible road into the forest.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.43
People
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German (Aschaffenburg am Main, Germany 1880 - 1938 Davos, Switzerland)
Title
Forest Road in Königstein with Mail Coach
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Waldstrasse bei Königstein
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1916
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/356873

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching with ink drawing on off-white wove paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
image: 33.5 × 24.9 cm (13 3/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
sheet: 36.9 × 28.4 cm (14 1/2 × 11 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., in graphite: Kirchner
  • inscription: Eigendruck Probedruck überzeichnet

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, created 1916; [Kunstverein Jena, Botho-Graef-Stiftung]; removed from the collection by the National Socialist (Nazi) authorities (1937-1940); [Galerie Ferdinand Möeller, Berlin], (1940-1943); Kunsthändler Ferdinand Möller, Zermützel (1943-1949). Alan Press, Chicago, sold, through [Alice Adam Ltd., Chicago]; to James Mabie, Chicago (1987-2008), sold, through [Alice Adam Ltd., Chicago]; to Christopher Barton, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2008-2016), sold, through [Galerie St. Etienne, New York]; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2016.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/iii
Standard Reference Number
Gercken, 794/II

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marjorie Benedict Cohn Twentieth Century Print Acquisition Fund and Margaret Fisher 1986 Fund
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.43
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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