Interior da Floresta (Waldinneres) - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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OST - 178x135 - 1937
Waldinneres is a striking and monumental example of
Kirchner’s mountainscapes, executed in the area around Davos, where he lived
from 1917 until the end of his life. Having suffered from ill health after
military service, the artist moved to Davos in order to convalesce, and the
years that followed were marked not only by a dramatic change of lifestyle from
his Dresden and Berlin years, but also by an important shift in his art.
Mountains for Kirchner became a symbol of physical and mental regeneration and
these majestic landscapes, as well as images of villages and farmers at work,
became key subjects of his painting and of numerous photographs. The present
composition is entirely occupied by the imposing mountain trees, without any
signs of civilisation, their pronounced verticality reflecting the monumental
and sublime quality of the scene. A smaller-scale oil study for the present
work, titled Bergwald (Mountain Forest) is in the collection of the
Bündner Kunstmuseum in Chur.
Bernhard Mendes Bürgi wrote about Kirchner’s Alpine
landscapes: ‘Kirchner’s revitalization of an entire genre, one that can so
easily tend toward romanticism and sentimentality rather than pristine grandeur
and magic, doubtless stemmed from the menacing fascination of the alpine world
he sought to capture, which was at first quite new to him. It was his very
unfamiliarity with the imposing mountain environment that laid the foundations
of his authentic experience of nature and innovative artistic form – and this
created by an artist whose Berlin street scenes at the nerve center of
anonymous megalopolitan dynamics were thematic antitheses, and who now lived in
seclusion among peasants, at times on an alpine pasture remote from the
sanitariums of Davos immortalized by Thomas Mann in his novel The Magic
Mountain’ (B. M. Bürgi in Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Mountain Life (exhibition
catalogue), Kunstmuseum, Basel, 2003-04, p. 13).
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