Curatorial Narrative Ernst Schiess’s “Gebirgslandschaft” occupies an intriguing position within the trajectory of modern landscape painting. Emerging from a tradition that privileged the expressive potential of gesture and mark-making, Schiess’s work embodies a tension between spontaneity and control, as evident in the impasto technique that defines its textural surface. This visceral engagement with paint yields a sense of atmosphere that is both deeply personal and attuned to the natural world.In its enlarged format, the painting’s palette characterized by an interplay of blue, gray, and green assumes a heightened chromatic structure, generating a complex spatial rhythm that oscillates between the intimacy of a landscape’s microcosm and the grandeur of the alpine terrain. As it asserts itself within a luxury interior environment, “Gebirgslandschaft” demands consideration for the material pairing of its surface with adjacent fini