Alpine Kitchen - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Hyperrealism 1967-2012
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Hyperrealism. 1967-2012

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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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Alpine Kitchen

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Autor:: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Título:: Alpine Kitchen
Fecha:: 1918

Técnica:: Oil on canvas
Medidas:: 121.5 x 121.5 cm
Úbicacion:: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Numero de inventario: INV. Nr. 616 (1983.30)

More information about this work

The trauma of the war and the fact he was declared unfit for active service plunged Kirchner into a deep physical and mental crisis that led him to voluntary retirement in Switzerland in 1917. The artist took refuge in the mountains by the village of Frauenkirch , near Davos , where his painting underwent a transformation and became filled with new themes.

In summer 1918 Kirchner rented an alpine cabin in Staffelalp, by Frauenkirch , where he painted the present Alpine Kitchen .With a very distorted perspective, the painting shows a room decorated in rustic style as he described it in a letter to the architect Henry van de Velde: “The rooms up here are most unusual, the gaps in the walls filled in with moss, and a wonderful pot-bellied stove []” Although,. according to Roman Norbert Ketterer , the administrator of Kirchner’s Estate, the figure by the table is the artist himself preparing a lithographic stone in the kitchen of his Swiss chalet overlooking the Tinsehorn , Peter Vergo believes it is Erna, the artist’s companion at the time.

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