1908
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
The Sea near Staberhuk is a 1908 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
The painting shows a rough sea near a rocky shore. It's interesting because the artist used a new technique to create it. He wanted to show that a lithograph is different from a drawing, so he drew right to the edges of the stone. The Cleveland Museum of Art has this work, look it up there to learn more about the artist's style and other similar pieces.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner made this print during the first year that he learned the lithographic process. In contrast to convention, he wished to make it immediately apparent that a lithograph was not a drawing. To do so, he used lithographic wash to draw right to the edges of the stone, abruptly cutting off the composition and emphasizing the stone’s irregular contour with inked edges. The spontaneity of the quickly drawn marks that mimic the weather and wind of the sea, coupled with the emphasis on the materiality of the stone, matched Kirchner’s quest for truth in his art.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker.
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