The Junkerboden under Snow - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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Autor:: Tom Blackwell
Título:: Triumph Trumpet (detail)
Fecha:: 1977

Técnica:: Oil on canvas
Medidas:: 180 x 180 cm.
Ubicacion:: Private Collection, New York.
image © Tom Blackwell photo © Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York

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Autor:: Nicolas Maes
Título:: The Naughty Drummer
Fecha:: c. 1655

Técnica:: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Nr. INV. 241 (1930.56)

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Autor:: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Título:: The Junkerboden under Snow
Fecha:: ca. 1936-38

Técnica:: Oil on canvas
Medidas:: 100 x 120 cm
Úbicacion:: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Numero de inventario: INV. Nr. 617 (1983.7)

The Junkerboden under Snow, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

More information about this work

As can be seen in the simplified formal structure of the present work, which was executed in the 1930s at the end of the painter’s life, Kirchner’s painting shifted towards more naturalistic forms and became centred almost exclusively on the alpine landscapes of the area surrounding Wildboden . The sweeping blanket of snow that stretches across the lower half of the composition contrasts with the mountainous, forest-covered upper part. The empty space tinges the painting with a touch of mystery and a romantic, pantheistic air.

The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza archives hold a letter dated 15 May 1982 from Liselotte Bendix Stern, the widow of its former owner Dr Stern , to Simon de Pury , then curator of the Thyssen- Bornemisza collection. In this letter she states, among other things, that “My husband and I have always felt that the picture should be available for public enjoyment and he would have been very pleased that the picture had come to La Favorita”.

Paloma Alarcó

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