In memory of Kirchner (orig: Zum Gedenken an Kirchner) Without frame

This small painted collage was made by Karl Schmid during one of his many hospitalizations in the sanatorium in Davos. Upon awakening from a comatose state, he asked for a sheet of paper and pigments. He folded and cut the sheet into small strips, which he then glued onto a piece of cardboard, mixed the pigments with an egg yolk, and then began painting from the lower left corner proceeding diagonally to the upper right corner, where he placed his signature. By the end of the creative process he was cured. From the window of the sanatorium he could see the house where his friend Ernst Ludwig Kirchner had committed suicide in 1938 by shooting himself in the heart. In the abstract composition, you can recognize that house at the top of the work.

Collage without frame