Segelboote bei Grünau 1913

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner made this print of sailboats, maybe a woodcut, with blocks of blue and green and scratchy, inky black lines. You can just imagine him, right, hacking away at that wood block, figuring out how to show the sails catching the wind, and those spindly trees leaning over the water. I feel like Kirchner is right there with those sailors, trying to find his own balance in the boat, or maybe in life. He’s always searching, you know? Like Van Gogh but more jagged and wired. There’s a tension in his work, a kind of searching for a new way to see, a new way to feel. I always think about the German Expressionists, how they kept pushing, kept asking what painting could do. This boat scene, it's not just a pretty picture, it's Kirchner wrestling with form and feeling, trying to find some kind of truth on the waves. Artists like Kirchner, they make you wanna grab a brush or a knife and start digging, start discovering, start sailing into the unknown yourself.