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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