Research topic: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , 1880-1938, German expressionist painter and graphic artist. He studied art in Munich and was greatly impressed by the neoimpressionists. Kirchner studied Oceanic and other primitive sculpture at the Dresden Museum of Ethnology in 1904. This art was of great importance for him and for the movement known as the Brücke , which he cofounded the following year. Also inspired by late Gothic woodcuts and the art of Edvard Munch, Van Gogh, and the Fauves, Kirchner merged their expressive forces into powerful and original creations. With startling contrasts of pure color... Read more