Coastal Landscape on Fehmarn

ca. 1913

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German, 1880 - 1938

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Modern, Level 2, North Wing

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About the Artwork

The perspective of this painting leads the spectator’s eye from the elevated grassy dunes to the narrow beach where sand meets the shallow waters of the receding ocean. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s jagged application of paint in the foreground imparts a sketchy quality to the image, unified by the intense color palette of greens, browns, and dusty pinks set against the swaths of blue.

The shores of the North and Baltic Seas — bordering Germany — were popular destinations for members of Die Brücke (The Bridge), an artistic association Kirchner cofounded in Dresden in 1905. Sharing the desire for a spiritual regeneration through a communion with nature, Brücke artists frequented these secluded sites to sketch and paint. In the summer of 1912, Kirchner lived with his companion Erna Schilling on Fehmarn Island on the Baltic Sea, the remote area which provided inspiration and motif for this landscape.

Kirchner framed Costal Landscape on Fehmarn in a half-rounded wooden frame, which is preserved with the work.

Title Coastal Landscape on Fehmarn

Artwork Date ca. 1913

Artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Life Dates 1880 - 1938

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. German

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Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 35 1/2 × 47 1/2 inches (90.2 × 120.7 cm) Framed: 38 13/16 × 50 7/16 × 2 7/16 inches (98.6 × 128.1 × 6.2 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 21.204

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Professor Edwin Redslob (Berlin, Germany).
1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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