Bergtannen im Winter. Um 1924.
Watercolor over color chalks.
Lower right signed. On cardboard. 50 x 37.5 cm (19.6 x 14.7 in), the full sheet.
[AM].
• Dramatically composed watercolor in bright colors.
• Dynamic landscape composition with a particularly atmospheric radiance.
• For the first time on the international auction market (source: artprice.com).

This work is documented in the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Archive, Wichtrach/Bern.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Commeter, Hamburg (1928).
Kunsthalle Hamburg (acquired from the above in 1928, verso with the stamp, Lugt 1233 and the inventory number "1928/26“). in
State-owned (in 1937 confiscated from the above in context of the 'degenerate art' campaign, EK no. 5306).Hildebrandt Gurlitt, Hamburg (1940 durch Kauf vom Vorgenannten erworben).
Dr. Rathke Kunsthandel, Frankfurt am Main.
Private collection Northern Germany (acquired from the above in 1977).
Private collection Northern Germany (gifted from the above in 1994).

LITERATURE: Franz Roh, Entartete Kunst. Kunstbarbarei im Dritten Reich, Hannover 1962, p. 191.
Anja Tiedemann, Die „entartete“ Moderne und ihr amerikanischer Markt. Karl Buchholz und Curt Valentin als Händler verfemter Kunst (Schriften der Forschungsstelle „Entartete Kunst“, vol. 8), Berlin 2013, p. 359.
www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/db_entart_kunst/datenbank (EK no. 5608).