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View all 391 artworks. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of German Expressionism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
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The Café Ernst Ludwig Kirchner • 1904 NudeYoung Woman in...
- Archer, C.1935
‘Archer’ was created in c.1935 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in...
- Bathers on The Lawn
‘Bathers on the Lawn’ was created by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner...
- Cake-Walk
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Famous works. Berlin Street Scene...
- Trees, C.1935
‘Trees’ was created in c.1935 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in...
- Painter and Modell
‘Painter and Modell’ was created in 1936 by Ernst Ludwig...
- Self-Portrait, 1931
‘Self-Portrait’ was created in 1931 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner...
- Street, Berlin, 1913
‘Street, Berlin’ was created in 1913 by Ernst Ludwig...
- Davos in Summer, 1925
‘Davos in Summer’ was created in 1925 by Ernst Ludwig...
- Sitting Girl, 1910
‘Sitting Girl’ was created in 1910 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner...
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a driving force in the Die Brücke group that flourished in Dresden and Berlin before World War I, and he has come to be seen as one of the most talented and influential of Germany's Expressionists. Motivated by the same anxieties that gripped the movement as a whole - fears about humanity's place in the modern world, its l...
The human figure was central to Kirchner's art. It was vital to the pictures that took his studio as their backdrop - pictures in which he captured models posing as well as aspects of his bohemian...Kirchner's Expressionistic handling of paint represented a powerful reaction against the Impressionism that was dominant in German painting when he first emerged. For him, it marked a reaction agai...Kirchner believed that powerful forces - enlivening yet also destructive - dwelt beneath the veneer of Western civilization, and he believed that creativity offered a means of harnessing them. This...Early Training
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was born on May 6, 1880 in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, and began studying architecture at the Dresden Technical High School in 1901 at the encouragement of his parents. While attending classes, he became close friends with Fritz Bleyl, who shared his radical outlook on art and nature. During this time, Kirchner chose to dedicate himself to fine art rather than architecture. In 1905, Kirchner and Bleyl, along with fellow architecture students Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich H...
Mature Period
In 1906, Kirchner and Die Brücke held their first group exhibition in a lamp factory. The female nude, inspired by late-night studio meetings, was the primary subject of the exhibition. Kirchner's woodcut print, Nude Dancers (Nackte Tanzerinnen) (1909), exemplifies the energetic tone of the exhibition. The crude, graphic lines depict naked women dancing on a stage. Die Brücke ended in 1913 with Kirchner's publication of Chronik der Brücke (Brücke Chronicle), which focused on the "freedom of l...
Late Years and Death
Kirchner voluntarily joined the military in 1915, though he was released shortly after due to a nervous breakdown. He recovered in several Swiss hospitals between 1916 and 1917. Scarred by his military experience, in 1918 he moved to a farmhouse in the Alps, near Davos, where his new residence inspired a series of mountain landscapes. His reputation as a leading German Expressionist continued to grow with exhibitions in Switzerland and Germany in the 1920s. His first monograph and catalog of...
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- May 6, 1880
- Aschaffenburg, Bavaria
- June 15, 1938
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: 11 works. A slideshow of artworks auto-selected from multiple collections. By Google Arts & Culture. Nude Sitting on Orange Cloth (1909) by Ernst Ludwig...
Overview. Provenance. Title: The Reaper. Artist: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, Aschaffenburg 1880–1938 Frauenkirch) Date: 1919–20. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 39 3/8 × 29 5/8 in. (100 × 75.2 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Lent by Private collection, New York. Accession Number: L.2017.29.2.
Artist: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, Aschaffenburg 1880–1938 Frauenkirch) Date: 1919. Medium: Color woodcut, working proofs recto and verso; recto: black ink with traces of yellow and green ink and wax crayon; verso: black, pink, dark red, and two shades of green ink. Dimensions: Sheet: 16 1/8 × 26 1/8 in. (41 × 66.4 cm) Classification ...
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