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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner The German expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) sought to give form...on May 6, 1880, in Aschaffenburg, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner spent most of his childhood in Chemnitz... Read more
Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig
Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig (1880–1938). German Expressionist painter, printmaker, and sculptor, the dominant figure in the Brücke group. Like...spiky and aggressive he depicted the pace, the glare, and the tension of big city life ( Street, Berlin , 1913, MoMA, New York). Kirchner was drafted ... Read more

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