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Apr 11, 2013 · Double Self-Portrait • XIX-XX cent. Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom. ‘Self-portrait under the Influence of Morphium’ was created by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in Expressionism style.
- Die Brücke
- Kirchner and The War
- The Aftermath
In 1905, Kirchner, together with several other young artists from Dresden founded the German Expressionistgroup Die Brücke (The Bridge). Kirchner created their manifesto, a woodblock print that was to be widely disseminated as a call to arms: Spurred on by their confidence and their belief that they lived in an age of great change, the Brücke artis...
Kirchner volunteered to serve as a driver in the military in order to avoid being drafted into a more dangerous role. However, he was soon declared unfit for service due to issues with his general health, and was sent away to recover. Self-Portrait as a Soldier was painted during that recovery. These circumstances distinguish the 1915 canvas from o...
During the war, Kirchner suffered from alcoholism and drug abuse and for a time his hands and feet were partially paralyzed. In a sense his fears about the war were self-fulfilling. Kirchner recovered and his work was exhibited internationally to much acclaim during the interwar period. Adolf Hitler persecuted artists who painted in a style that he...
At first, Kirchner worked to capture mood and life force by turning real colors up to unreal volumes. The subject of his “Portrait of Hans Frisch,” from around 1907, sprawls across a patterned...
Self-Portrait as a Soldier. Self-Portrait as a Soldier, or Selbstbildnis als Soldat, is an Expressionist oil-on-canvas painting by the German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kirchner created this self-depiction in 1915, following his medical discharge from military service during the First World War. [1]
The abrupt relation between Kirchner’s image in the Self-Portrait and the figure of the female nude to the immediate right remains to be considered, the outright collision between his face and her body. There are, first, precedents in modern German art for the artist’s juxtaposition of his image with, especially, a fearful motif, as well as ...
- Joseph Masheck
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Self-Portrait As a Soldier is a masterpiece of psychological drama. The painting shows Kirchner dressed in a uniform but instead of standing on a battlefield (or another military context), he is standing in his studio with an amputated, bloody arm and a nude model behind him.
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