Magazine Summary
SKIING HISTORY (formerly Skiing Heritage) is the bimonthly journal of the International Skiing History Association and the official publication of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame, the Canadian Ski Museum and the Alf Engen Ski Museum.
On the Cover
The cover of this issue features a 1926 woodcut, titled “Der Skisprung,” by influential German expressionist painter and printmaker Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938). After World War I, illness drove him to settle in Davos, Switzerland, where he painted many landscapes. This woodcut—with the number on the skier’s bib reversed for printmaking—depicts the famous Bolgenschanze ski jump in Davos, which hosted international meets startin in 1909 and was active through the 1950s. Today the slope is used for alpine skiing. The woodcut is printed with permission from Kirchner Museum Davos in Switzerland (www.kirchnermuseum.ch).