Art, literature & history
The Sea near Staberhuk
1908
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- lithograph
- Collection no.
- 1974.104
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The Sea near Staberhuk. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift of Louise S. Richards in honor of William Mathewson Milliken on his 85th year. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Sea near Staberhuk — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. 1908.
Medium: lithograph. Dimensions: .
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner made this print during the first year that he learned the lithographic process. In contrast to convention, he wished to make it immediately apparent that a lithograph was not a drawing. To do so, he used lithographic wash to draw right to the edges of the stone, abruptly cutting off the composition and emphasizing the stone’s irregular contour with inked edges. The spontaneity of the quickly drawn marks that mimic the weather and wind of the sea, coupled with the emphasis on the materiality of the stone, matched Kirchner’s quest for truth in his art.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.