"Kähne an einer Brücke (Hafen Burgstaaken; Strasse, Hafen mit zwei Booten)", 1913

As in the previous year, Kirchner spent his third stay on Fehmarn after 1908 and 1912 in 1913 together with Erna Schilling in the house of the lighthouse keeper Lüthmann in Staberhuk. Below the lighthouse, the cliffs, dunes and stony beach of Staberhuk stretch around the south-eastern tip of the island. This was the landscape in which Kirchner painted his iconic bathing scenes on Fehmarn and whose elements appear again and again in his paintings, The harbour of Burgstaaken on Fehmarn was also captured by Kirchner in many drawings and paintings, as well as in the present work. With a decisive stroke and an unerring sense for the essentials, Kirchner captures here a scene with boats whose style is characteristic of the period around 1913.