Landscape in the Taunus

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

1916

graphite

From the collection of National Gallery of Art

Early Modern Landscape

About this work

This sketch shows wavy, tangled lines on a light background. The marks look like trees, hills, and maybe roads—all jumbled together. Some areas are darker, others barely there, as if drawn quickly with a pencil. The lines don’t follow normal rules of perspective. They feel more like scribbles than a finished scene, almost like the artist was capturing movement or energy instead of a real place. Check out Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig to see how his other work plays with shape and emotion.