Rediscovered & Reunited
Frames and pictures by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
03.10.2024 - 12.01.2025 ,
Buchheim Museum
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner saw the painting and the frame as a single entity. As a member of the "Brücke" group of artists from 1905 to 1913, he designed and created the frames for his paintings himself. Profile drawings in his sketchbooks and the frames he often painted to match the colours in the picture are unmistakable signs of his individual frame design. In the years that Kirchner spent in Switzerland from 1918 until the end of his life in 1938, the so-called Davos frames played a special role. From simple flat rectangular mouldings to elaborate profiles with steps, rounded, fluted or curved elements, the variety of frames developed in Davos can hardly be surpassed.
Despite Kirchner's intention that picture and frame should belong together, some paintings were separated from their original frames over the course of time. Visitors can look forward to seeing them reunited with their corresponding frames.
Last edited on 17.10.2024
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