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The self-appointed "leader" of the artists' group Die Brücke (Bridge), founded in Dresden in 1905, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a key figure in the early development of German Expressionism. His first works show the influence of Impressionism, Post-impressionism and Jugendstil, but by about 1909, Kirchner was painting in a distinctive, expressive manner with bold, loose brushwork, vibrant and non-naturalistic colours and heightened gestures. He worked in the studio from sketches made very rapidly from life, often from moving figures, from scenes of life out in the city or from the Die Brücke group's trips to the countryside. A little later he began making roughly-hewn sculptures from single blocks of wood. Around the time of his move to Berlin, in 1912, Kirchner's style in both painting and his prolific graphic works became more angular, characterized by jagged lines, slender, attenuated forms and often, a greater sense of nervousness. These features can be seen to most powerful effect in his Berlin street scenes. With the outbreak of the First World War, Kirchner became physically weak and prone to anxiety. Conscripted, he was deeply traumatised by his brief experience of military training during the First World War. From 1917 until his death by suicide in 1938, he lived a reclusive, though artistically productive life in the tranquillity of the Swiss Alps, near Davos.
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1Kirchner Kirchner
2Henze, Wichtrach / Berne
3Biography
4an end to his life.
5What is Expressionism?
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61905 Oil on board, 37 x 30 cm Kirchner Museum, Davos
71906-1907 Charcoal on pencil, 68.5 x 89 cm Private collection
8latest modern, fauvist, futurist or cubist art.
91906 Charcoal, 90 x 69 cm Staatliche Museen, Kassel
101906-1908 Oil on board, 70 x 52 cm Collection Thyssen-Bornemisza, Lugano
111907 Oil on canvas, 70 x 59 cm Museum moderner Kunst, Vienna
12Portrait of a Man, Hans Frisch
131908 Oil on canvas, 113.5 x 114.5 cm Private collection
141908 Pastel, 69 x 90 cm Museum Ludwig, Cologne
15Paula Modersohn-Becker and Richard Gerstl
16Czardaz Dancers
17not a coherent, singular entity. Unlike Marinetti’s
18Street in Dresden
19of intellectual adventure, passionate idealism, and
20But utopian aspirations and the high stakes
211909 Oil on canvas, 70.3 x 90.3 cm Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern
22“German” Art? Expressionism’s Origins
231909 Oil on canvas, 70 x 78.5 cm Private collection
24The mixture of intricate realism, patriotism and
25Etappenquartier vor Paris (In a Billet Outside Paris)
26Tavern
271909 Oil on canvas, 92 x 80 cm Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
281909 Woodcut, 35 x 57.3 cm Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
29When Erich Heckel met Munch in 1907, Munch
30Naked Couple on a Sofa
31conservative sensibilities. The writer, friend and
321909 Indian ink and brushwork, 44 x 32 cm Brücke-Museum, Berlin
33“I
34incredible that anything as innocent as art can
351909 Chalk, 88.5 x 68.5 cm Brücke-Museum, Berlin
361871 until the empire’s collapse in 1918.
371909 Coloured lithography, 38.5 x 33 cm Ulmer Museum, Ulm
38sides by internationalism, science, democracy — in
39up in the following decades by, amongst others, Carl
40title Ein Protest deutscher Künstler (A Protest of
411910 Oil on canvas, 70.5 x 50 cm Fundación Collección Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
42In Dresden, a group of young architecture
43in quick, decisive, “courageous” lines, as one of
44independent group, chiefly for exhibition purposes.
45WITH FAITH IN DEVELOPMENT AND IN A
461910 Oil on canvas, 100 x 76 cm Brücke-Museum, Berlin
47Nudes Playing under the Tree
48international art; of French postimpressionism —
491910 Oil on canvas, 75 x 100.5 cm Von der Hedt-Museum, Wuppertal
501910 Oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm Private collection
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