2017.43: Forest Road in Königstein with Mail Coach
PrintsA 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
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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
- 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
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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
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- 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
- Permissions
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