Frauenkirch c. 1924

cardboard, drawing

cardboard

17_20th-century

drawing

pen illustration

pen sketch

landscape

junji ito style

ink line art

linework heavy

german

ink drawing experimentation

pen-ink sketch

pen work

sketchbook drawing

doodle art

This expressive charcoal drawing, titled "Frauenkirch," was created in 1924 by German Expressionist artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The work depicts a mountainous landscape with a village nestled among the hills, rendered in bold, angular strokes and deep shadows. Kirchner's distinctive style, characterized by bold lines and fragmented forms, is evident in this composition. "Frauenkirch" showcases the artist's fascination with nature and his desire to capture its raw energy and emotional intensity. The drawing was created in the years following Kirchner's return to Switzerland and the subsequent collapse of the Brücke artistic movement.

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Before Kirchner settled in Switzerland permanently in July of 1918, he had hardly ever depicted the outdoors as pure landscape. Until then, nature had served him primarily as a frame of action for depictions of nudes. When he moved to Frauenkirch near Davos, however, the scenery of the Swiss Alps directly surrounding him became a dominant motif in his art. Here the artist drew the contours of the mountain panorama and the slopes forming a valley with black crayon of an oily gleam. To depict the fir trees growing along the slopes and peaks, he used lines curving to form arcs.