Digital Guide

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880−1938)

112 - Mountain Peasants on Sunday, 1923–24/26

Oil on canvas, 170 × 400 cm

Federal Republic of Germany

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Comment/designation by Kirchner in 1933:
Alp Sunday. With Narrating Old Man.
View toward the mountains.
E. L. Kirchner 19–23 (on the reverse), each 170 × 400 cm.
Monumental figure composition set within a landscape. In the first painting, the figures stand darkly against a light background; in the second, they are integrated into the colorful ground through colored shadow contours. 

Franz Henn. View of the Kirchner exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern with Alpsonntag. Szene am Brunnen (left) and Sonntag der Bergbauern (right), (excerpt), 1933. Photograph © Erbengemeinschaft Eberhard W. Kornfeld
View of the Kirchner exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern with Alpsonntag. Szene am Brunnen (left) and Sonntag der Bergbauern (right)
Photograph (excerpt): Franz Henn, 1933. © Erbengemeinschaft Eberhard W. Kornfeld

 

Spectacular Art Transport from Berlin to Bern

Cabinet room in the Federal Chancellery in Berlin with the painting Sonntag der Bergbauern by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in the background © Bundesregierung / Guido Bergmann
The transport case of the painting Sonntag der Bergbauern by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner being carried by crane from the Federal Chancellery in Berlin. © art/beats, Felix von Boehm