LE JAKOBSHORN & LE RINEHORN PEINTS PAR ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER

ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER (1880-1938)
Le Jakobshorn (2,590 m-8,500 ft)
Le Rinerhorn (2,528m - 82,93ft) )
Suisse

In Hiver à Davos,  1919-1920, Kirchner Museum Davos

Les montagnes
Le Jakobshorn (2 590 m-8 500 ft) est une montagne des Alpes de l'Albula, surplombant Davos dans le canton suisse des Grisons. C'est aussi l'un des cinq domaines skiables des monts Davos Klosters, offrant 14 pistes. Situé à l'extrémité nord de la chaîne entre le Dischmatal et le Sertigtal, le Jakobshorn est desservi par un téléphérique en deux parties partant de Davos Platz. Une fois sur la montagne, il y a trois télésièges, un téléphérique court et un T-Bar. Le Jakobshorn est également un point de départ privilégié pour les deltaplanes et les snowkiters.
 Le Rinerhorn  (2,528m - 8293ft) ) est  situé dans le canton des Grisons, Davos est à la fois ville et station touristique. Niché dans une haute vallée, à une altitude moyenne de 1550 mètres, Davos est, avec ses 11’000 habitants, la plus haute ville d’Europe centrale. Riche d’une longue histoire, de plus 150 ans, la destination de Davos bénéficie aujourd’hui d’une notoriété internationale. Une popularité qui n’est pas prête de faiblir avec l’organisation régulière d’événements à connotation internationale, comme le World Economic Forum (WEF) ou encore la Coupe Spengler de Hockey.  Le Rinerhorn est integré dans Le domaine skiable Davos Rinerhorn  et l’espace  Davos Klosters Mountains, qui comprend les domaines de Klosters Madrisa, Davos Jakobshorn, Davos Klosters Parsenn et Davos Pischa (320 km de pistes de ski alpin et 59 remontées mécaniques).

Le peintre 
Ernst Kirchner étudie l'architecture à l'École supérieure technique de Dresde, où il rencontre, dans un premier temps, Fritz Bleyl, puis Erich Heckel et Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. En 1905, à eux quatre, ils fondent le groupe Die Brücke (Le Pont)   dont le programme est rédigé eun an plus tard. Ces artistes ne se réclament d'aucune influence, même si Kirchner découvre le concept de « dessin rapide » chez d'autres peintres contemporains, et se réfère à la fois au Moyen Âge allemand, aux dessins de Rembrandt et à l'art japonais. Il s'intéresse à la gravure sur bois et son style évolue vers la simplification des traits, rendant visible le travail du bois sur la gravure finale. La réouverture du musée ethnographique de Dresde en 1912 est pour lui une nouvelle source d'inspiration, basée sur l'art primitif. En 1911, Ernst Kirchner s'installe à Berlin mais il ne s'y plaît guère. Il y peint de nombreuses scènes de rue et de la vie nocturne, dans un style expressionniste. Il y rencontre Erna Schilling, une danseuse de cabaret, qui devient son modèle puis sa compagne, jusqu'à la mort du peintre. Il se distrait de la vie berlinoise en faisant de fréquents séjours à l'île de Fehmarn, découverte en 1908. Il y peint souvent des corps de baigneurs nus, insérés dans un ordre cosmique de vagues, de nuages et de végétation, s'opposant à l'univers de la grande ville. En 1915 ,il s'engage dans l'armée mais il est réformé deux mois plus tard en raison de problèmes de santé (maladie pulmonaire, état dépressif, aggravés par la consommation d'alcool et de stupéfiants). Il fait alors plusieurs séjours en sanatorium dont il décore certains murs (Königstein im Taunus dans la Hesse). En 1916, il est victime d'un accident de voiture. Il s'installe en 1917 à Davos  en Suisse et y peint de nombreux paysages. Kirchner écrit également un certain nombre d'articles sous le pseudonyme de Louis de Marsalle. En 1937, les nazis déclarent son art dégénéré et beaucoup de ses toiles sont détruites. Terrassé par la douleur physique et mentale, Ernst Kirchner se suicide en 1938.

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TINZENHORN BY ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER

 ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER (1880-1938)

The Tinzenhorn  (3,173 m - 10, 410ft)

 Switzerland  Canton of Grisons)

In Tinzenhorn - Zügenschlucht by Monstein, 1919/20, oil on canvas (119 x 119cm) 

Kirchner Museum Davos

The mountain 

The Tinzenhorn (3,173 m - 10, 410ft)  also known localmy as  Corn da Tinizong  or Corn da Tinizung  is a mountain east of Savognin and southwest of Filisur, in the canton of Grisons in Switzerland. At the Tinzenhorn, fossilized footprints of dinosaurs were found. It is a slender, boldly rising, spire tower of almost Gothic appearance, the four walls of which fall down in partly torn walls.  The Tinzenhorn belongs to the Bergüner Stöcken, a subgroup of the Albula Alps. The Tinzenhorn separates the northern Albula valley from the southwestern Oberhalbstein. The summit lies in the municipality of Bergün Filisur, however, the municipal boundary to Surses is only 191 m away. Among the neighboring peaks of the Tinzenhorns include the Piz Mitgel , the Piz Ela and the pizza Grossa .

 The Painter

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke  (The Bridge), a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. He volunteered for army service in the First World War, but soon suffered a breakdown and was discharged. In 1933, his work was branded as "degenerate" by the Nazis and in 1937, over 600 of his works were sold or destroyed. In 1938, he committed suicide by gunshot.

 In many landscape paintings of the expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, who lived and worked in Davos from 1917 with interruptions, the Tinzenhorn occupies an important position. The work Tinzenhorn - Zügenschlucht by Monstein  above, from 1919/20 is entirely dedicated to this mountain.

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2018 - Wandering Vertexes...

by Francis Rousseau 

PIZ LAGREV PAINTED BY GIOVANNI GIACOMETTI

GIOVANNI GIACOMETTI (1868-1933)

Piz Lagrev (3,165m - 10,384 ft)

Switzerland

In   Maloja et le Piz Lagrev , oil on canvas, private collection 

The mountain 
Piz Lagrev (3,165m - 10,384 ft) is a mountain of the Albula Alps, overlooking Lake Sils in the Swiss canton of Graubunden. On its northern side lies the Julier Pass. Piz Lagrev is the culminating point of the range lying between the Septimer Pass and the Julier Pass. Northeast of Piz Lagrev is a small glacier named Vadret Lagrev and an unnamed lake at its bottom.

The painter 
Giovanni Giacometti was a Swiss painter, the father of  the famous painter and sculptor Alberto  Giacometti, and of Diego Giacometti, the furniture designer as well as the father of the architect Bruno Giacometti ! In 1886, he studied painting at the School of Decorative Arts in Munich, where he met Cuno Amiet the following year. Both decide to pursue their studies in Paris, in October stood at the Académie Julian, where Giacometti remains until 1891.
In 1893, shortly after his return to Switzerland, to Bergell, he became friends with Giovanni Segantini, his eldest ten years, which has great influence on his work by opening it to the beauty of the mountain scenery and the rules of divisionism. After his sudden death in 1899, Giacometti met Ferdinand Hodler, who teaches him to create a rigorous and ornamental composition by appropriate use of shapes and colors.
He sees regularly Cuno Amiet, who after a year spent in Pont-Aven,  shared his experience with him. In 1900 he exhibited in the Swiss Pavillon of the Universal Exhibition in Paris. From 1905, Giacometti works again in a great complicity with Amiet and begins to break free from the influence of Segantini. In 1906, held an exhibition of his work at Kunstlerhaus Zurich. In 1907 he went to Paris with Amiet to the Cézanne retrospective at the Salon d'Automne. They copy all the works of Van Gogh. In 1908, he exhibited with the French Fauves at the Richter Gallery in Dresden.
In 1909, the Tannhauser Gallery presents his works in Munich. He meets Alexi von Jawlensky, and in 1911 participates in the Berlin Secession. In 1912, Giacometti has a solo show at the Kunsthaus Zurich presents two works in the Sonderbund of Cologne. In 1918 after Hodler' s death, he began to be involved into the Swiss political world  paying an important part as a committed artist, following intthat way friend Amiet.
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2018 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

PIZ GREVLASALVAS PAINTED BY GIOVANNI GIACOMETTI

GIOVANNI GIACOMETTI (1868-1933) 

Piz Grevalsalvas  (2,932 m -9,619 ft)

Swizterland 

 In Piz Grevalsalvas 1927, oil on canvas, Private coll.  

The mountain 

Piz Grevalsalvas (2,932 m -9,619 ft) is a mountain of the Albula Alps, located north of Maloja in the canton oSwitzerland Graubünden. It lies on the range between the Julier Pass and Lake Sils.

This is a ski mountain, where ski activity is intense in winter. From Piz Grevasalvas was stunning views of the Upper Engadine and Surgôt, upper Oberhalbstein. The neighboring peaks are Piz Mater Dell and Radonda Motta (in the club guide called Piz Nalar SAC) Lunghin Piz and Piz dal Sasc.

It is on the Grevasalvas that was filmed the famous children's series "Heidi" in 1978.

The painter 

Giovanni Giacometti was a Swiss painter, the father of  the famous painter and sculptor Alberto  Giacometti, and of Diego Giacometti, the furniture designer as well as the father of the architect Bruno Giacometti ! In 1886, he studied painting at the School of Decorative Arts in Munich, where he met Cuno Amiet the following year. Both decide to pursue their studies in Paris, in October stood at the Académie Julian, where Giacometti remains until 1891.

In 1893, shortly after his return to Switzerland, to Bergell, he became friends with Giovanni Segantini, his eldest ten years, which has great influence on his work by opening it to the beauty of the mountain scenery and the rules of divisionism. After his sudden death in 1899, Giacometti met Ferdinand Hodler, who teaches him to create a rigorous and ornamental composition by appropriate use of shapes and colors.

He sees regularly Cuno Amiet, who after a year spent in Pont-Aven,  shared his experience with him. In 1900 he exhibited in the Swiss Pavillon of the Universal Exhibition in Paris. From 1905, Giacometti works again in a great complicity with Amiet and begins to break free from the influence of Segantini. In 1906, held an exhibition of his work at Kunstlerhaus Zurich. In 1907 he went to Paris with Amiet to the Cézanne retrospective at the Salon d'Automne. They copy all the works of Van Gogh. In 1908, he exhibited with the French Fauves at the Richter Gallery in Dresden.

In 1909, the Tannhauser Gallery presents his works in Munich. He meets Alexi von Jawlensky, and in 1911 participates in the Berlin Secession. In 1912, Giacometti has a solo show at the Kunsthaus Zurich presents two works in the Sonderbund of Cologne. In 1918 after Hodler' s death, he began to be involved into the Swiss political world  paying an important part as a committed artist, following intthat way friend Amiet.
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2016 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau