Thematically restricted to Mountain Life, this exhibition ideally complements the Kirchner retrospectives in Washington and London in 2003, which concentrated on Kirchner's years in Dresden and Berlin, as well as the Davos and Stuttgart exhibitions of Kirchner's sculpure in the same year. The Basel exhibition aims not only to illustrate Kirchner's revitalization of the entire alpine genre, but also to make it clear that his profound experience of Switzerland's alpine environment brought his art to a new zenith.

FOREWORD

BERNHARD MENDES BORGI

PAINTER OF THE ALPS

BERNHARD MENDES BURGI

KIRCHNER’S ALPINE LANDSCAPES:

PAINTINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS

BETTINA GOCKEL

ART AND CRISIS: KIRCHNER PAINTS KIRCHNER

MICHAEL F. ZIMMERMANN

LIVING AMONG THE PEASANTS OF FRAUENKIRCH ...

LUCIUS GRISEBACH

ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER AS A SCULPTOR IN DAVOS

WOLFGANG HENZE

BIOGRAPHY OF ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER

BIRGIT GUDAT

NOTES ON THE TEXT

CATALOGUE OF WORKS EXHIBITED

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

SELECTED READING