Alpine Kitchen

Alpine Kitchen is an oil painting on canvas by German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, executed in 1918.

At the table, hunched over, sits a person who Roman Norbert Ketterer, Kirchner's estate administrator, but also Felix Krämer, assume is the artist himself working on a lithographic stone.

The view falls through the open door over the terrace, further over the other chalets of the Stafelalp and extends to the southwestern Tinzenhorn, which in this canvas forms the perspective vanishing point, and which often appears as a painterly motif in his Davos paintings.

Kirchner rented the small mountain hut from a local farmer and entered it for the first time in the early Summer of 1918.

In June 1918 he wrote to his friend Henry van de Velde that "the rooms were very unusual, the cracks between the woods were stuffed with moss, and there was a 'beautiful pot-bellied stove' in the kitchen".