Arts etc: Drink, drugs, death - an ordinary tale of tortured genius Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's life was a long drawn-out tragedy, says Tom Rosenthal. But we should remember him as a star of German Expressionist art whose work ranks alongside that of Picasso

The Independent on Sunday | June 15, 2003| | Copyright

Towards the end of his life Ernst Ludwig Kirchner took a revealing photograph of himself. It appears in the catalogue of the Royal Academy of Arts' new exhibition devoted to the artist and it shows a man whose film-star good looks have been ravaged by drugs and pain, and whose dominant emotion is of terror.

Hitler's annexation of Austria in 1938 had made Kirchner - whose work had been branded "decadent" by the Nazis - fear a similar invasion of Switzerland where he had taken refuge. He destroyed many of his printing blocks and some sculptures and attempted, unsuccessfully, to talk his lover ...

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