The Iron Bridge (so-called Eiserner Steg) at Frankfurt Main, View Towards Sachsenhausen c. 1916
ernstludwigkirchner
stadelmuseum
cardboard, drawing
cardboard
17_20th-century
landscape illustration sketch
drawing
ink drawing
pen sketch
personal sketchbook
german
sketchwork
ink drawing experimentation
pen-ink sketch
sketchbook drawing
storyboard and sketchbook work
sketchbook art
"The Iron Bridge (so-called Eiserner Steg) at Frankfurt Main, View Towards Sachsenhausen" is a pencil drawing by German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, created in 1916. The drawing depicts the Iron Bridge in Frankfurt, Germany, a prominent landmark that symbolized urban development and progress. Kirchner's expressive lines and angular forms capture the bustling energy of the city, while his perspective emphasizes the bridge's dominance over the surrounding cityscape. The drawing is housed in the Städel Museum.
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Kirchner had lived in Frankfurt for a time as a child. But it was only later, when he visited the city in 1916 and again in 1925/26, that it made its way into his art. In 1916, he depicted, among other things, the Iron Bridge, boldly spanning it across the sheet in a diagonal. He grants the beholder a view of the steel truss construction, curved top chords and massive piers from a bird’s-eye-perspective. In the lower left-hand corner he has placed a fisherman who animates the cityscape along with other figures he has reduced to abstract icons.
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