In January of 1917 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner came to Davos for the first time. The health resort and the Alpine landscape in Grisons became Kirchner’s artistic home. In the period from 1920 until 1937, Kirchner contributed to various theatre productions as set designer and theatre painter.

The stage sets form an independent and unique group of works in Kirchner’s oeuvre. The artist put his avant-garde stance aside and practiced applied art. Still, one finds many connections between his stagecraft and his prints and drawings.