Some of the vibrant mountain landscapes he painted in Switzerland—as well as earlier works—are on view at the Kirchner Museum Davos, founded and owned by the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Foundation.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner began transmuting the hectic urban expressionism of his shrill Berlin scenes to hallucinatory Alpine landscapes in glowing unnatural pinks and violets. For a brief moment ...

Among the private sponsors who had pledged to contribute to the remaining funding were the World Economic Forum and the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Foundation. Davos’s loss may be Chur’s gain.