Archers is an oil-on-canvas painting by German painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, created in 1935–1937, at his Swiss home town of Davos.
A drawing with the same motif appears in an undated letter to fellow painter Erich Heckel, from June 1910.
Thorsten Sadowsky, director and curator of the Kirchner Museum Davos, questions whether if the artist saw himself as a martyr and states that in his drawing, two girls are aiming at Saint Sebastian.
[5] These superimposed color fields form independent, two-dimensional compositional elements within the painting.
The American art historian Donald E. Gordon states that the colourfulness of the artist later work is reminiscent of Paul Gauguin.
[6] On November 28, 1935, Kirchner wrote to his patron and collector Carl Hagemann: "Now I am making Archers, a big painting.