Village Landscape with a Tower

Kirchner was a leading figure of the Brücke (Bridge) group of German Expressionist artists. He considered drawing the medium that best expressed his conception of art as a direct, spontaneous experience. He may have made this abbreviated drawing of a landscape with a tower in the distance along the Elbe River near Dresden. Landscape remained an important subject for Kirchner throughout his life, and especially during his final decades in Switzerland.