Mountain Slope with Goats

1920 · Print

Can I see it?

Not on view at present

Where is “Mountain Slope with Goats” now? Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

Checked: 13 days ago
In this state since: Aug 19, 2026
Source: The museum

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Details

Accession number: 2012.92.731

What it shows

Tree Mountains Animal

In the catalog

Prints Etching Modernism 20th century Expressionism

Sources

National Gallery of Art
Image: National Gallery of Art — Museum open access

In the life of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The whole life

1917–1918
The Bellevue Sanatorium in Kreuzlingen
At the end of August 1917 Kirchner was visited once more by Henry van de Velde, through whose good offices he was admitted to Ludwig Binswanger’s Bellevue Sanatorium in Kreuzlingen, where he went on painting and making woodcuts.
1918
Moves to the “In den Lärchen” farm in Davos
In 1918 Kirchner received a residence permit and moved to the “In den Lärchen” farm above Längmatte in Davos — first renting a room in the upper hut, and in 1919 the rooms above — and furnished it with furniture he carved himself; he wrote to Henry van de Velde of a beautiful old Grisons house with a kitchen like Rembrandt’s studio.
1919–1920
Health mends, exhibitions multiply
In 1919–1920 Kirchner’s health improved markedly: he was still dependent on morphine, but his doctor was slowly reducing the doses, and several exhibitions in Germany and Switzerland in 1920 strengthened his reputation. He grew close to the local farmers, who were amazed by his gramophone, and found many subjects among them.
c. 1920
Reviewing his own art under a pseudonym
To control public opinion of him and free himself from dependence on the art critics, Kirchner began writing critiques of his own art under the pseudonym Louis de Marsalle.
1921
A large exhibition in Berlin
In 1921 a major display of Kirchner’s work was held in Berlin, and the reviews were favourable.
May 1921
Meets the dancer Nina Hard
At the beginning of May 1921, in Zurich, Kirchner met Nina Hard and, despite Erna’s objections, invited her to Frauenkirch; the dancer became an important model and appears in many of his works.