About This Artwork

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German, 1880–1938

Kummeralp Mountain and Two Sheds, 1920

Oil and encaustic on canvas
38 3/4 x 47 1/4 in. (98.4 x 120 cm)
Signed, l.r.: "E. L. Kirchner"
Wilson L. Mead Fund, 1961.1114

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, E. L. Kirchner, January 10-February 9, 1958, no. 27 (ill.).

Düsseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Kunsthalle), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, September 9-October 30, 1960, no. 70 (ill.).

Publication History

Donald E. Gordon, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Cambridge, 1968), no. 649 (ill.).

A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century EuropeanPaintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 48, no. 2C8.

Ownership History

Weidenmüller Collection, Zwickenau, Germany, 1920. Willy Hahn, Stuttgart. Edgar Horstmann, Hamburg. Sold, The New Gallery, Inc., New York, 1961, to the Art Institute.