Liegendes Kind. Um 1920.
Ink pen drawing.
On firm wove paper. 17.5 x 22 cm (6.8 x 8.6 in), size of sheet.

• Snapshot sketch from the Davos days.
• The Davos peasant families and their lifes provided E. L. Kirchner with inspiration in those days.
• The reduction of graphic means and a focus on the essential lead to a dynamization and an immediacy of the expression.

We are grateful to Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerd Presler for his kind expert advice.

PROVENANCE: Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Würzburg (with the collector's stamp, Lugt 6032).

EXHIBITION: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 1995-2001).
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle an der Saale (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2001-2017).
Buchheim Museum, Bernried (permanent loan from the Hermann Gerlinger Collection, 2017-2022).

LITERATURE: Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 271, SHG no. 394 (with illu.).
Hermann Gerlinger, Katja Schneider (eds.), Die Maler der Brücke. Inventory catalog Hermann Gerlinger Collection, Halle (Saale) 2005, p. 350, SHG no. 782 (with illu.).

In good condition. upper edge irregular and upper corners with slight creasemarks. Edges slightly discolored and with faint traces of thumbing and rubbing. [JS]