The House of E. L. Kirchner (Het Huis van E. L. Kirchner)

Trained as a sculptor, painter, and wood-carver, Jan Wiegers worked as a painter and furniture designer for churches in Germany and Switzerland, but he is best known as a founder of the artists’ group De Ploeg (The Plough), based in Groningen, Holland. For health reasons Wiegers was in Davos, Switzerland, in 1920-21. This woodcut testifies to the contacts he had with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner during that period. The two artists formed a fast friendship, and Wiegers went on to play an active role in introducing his Dutch peers to Kirchner’s Expressionism.