(7) Into the Mountains

 

Hight time for a change of scenery while on the can. Now I found some Erich Ludwig KIRCHNER among my collection of art papers, and was surprised to find landscapes (Swiss mountains) there. I only knew works depicting city scenes by him, the founder of an early 20th cent. art group (Die Brücke) showing people who were always tall, thin and pointed, or sicklish, despairing soldiers. This painting of the mountain hut is called "Bündener landscape with sun rays" (1937). Oh, I thought the lines coming down from the clouds were supposed to symbolize wind, maybe rain, but sunrays? Oh Well. The bottom of the pine tree on the right looks awfully like a playmobil tree, but so what? Still a jolly nice painting I think, because it really shows a path up into the higher hills, a distance, so has depth. The other one next to the toilet paper is probably depicting a place near Davos as well, where Kirchner ended up after being hurt during WW1, staying in a sanatorium.  Good, these scenes suited his talent more than the bustle of Berlin.