TEFAF 2024 - Highlight

After a whole century, the important painting "Nude Woman Climbing from the Mountain (Erna)" by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner will be on display exclusively at TEFAF 2024 for the first time since 1922.

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

‍Naked Woman Risingfromthe Mountain (Erna)
‍‍1921
Oil on canvas
150 x 75 cm
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The artwork was last shown in 1922 at the Kunstsalon Schames in Frankfurt on the occasion of the major Kirchner exhibition "Swiss Works by E.L. Kirchner".

It was not until 1975 that Roman Norbert Ketterer discovered the canvas hidden behind another painting. He separated the two paintings and had "Nude Woman Climbing from the Mountain (Erna)" stretched on a new frame.

The picture shows Erna Kirchner in a Davos landscape, when Kirchner painted bathing scenes in nature for the first time again after a visit to the dancer Nina Hard in Davos in 1921. This is an important moment in Kirchner's work, linking the Davos period with the motifs of the early Brücke years.