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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

German Painter and Print-maker
Movements: One of the founder of Die
Brucke (The Bridge), Expressionism
born: may 6,1880- Aschaffenburg, Bavaria
volunteered in the army in the first world war
he was discharged because of a breakdown

Died: June 15,1938-he committed suicide by gunshot near Davos Switzerland

The human figure was central to Kirchner's art.
captured models posing as well as aspects of his bohemian life.
over 600 or more of his work were sold or destroyed

I really liked this artist because at first I looked at his paintings and I judged him too early, the pictures that came up first were only of naked ladies and I'm all about embracing female body or just naked bodies, but the way he painted them somehow made me uncomfortable, but then I found more of his landscaping work and I really enjoyed it. It reminded me of my tiny village in Guatemala. The big mountains and little houses in the middle of the valleys. As I read his biography it made me really sad, it sounds like he went through a lot and I could relate to him in a different way but I can still feel his pain, it makes me so sad that the artist who are just brilliant are somehow not happy and always end up committing suicide I wish he hadn't done that.

Blick auf Davos (1924)

Artwork description & Analysis: After being discharged from the military, Kirchner took refuge in Davos, where the Alps surrounding his home provided a new kind of bucolic inspiration. The painting depicts a cool mountain range embracing a small town, a pictorial sigh of relief following the end of World War I. Inspired by van Gogh's landscape paintings and the work of the Fauvists, Kirchner used pulsating shades of violet, blue, green, and yellow to depict the rural scene. The swooping perspective is similar to Kirchner's early paintings of urban life.

Oil on canvas

http://www.theartstory.org/artist-kirchner-ernst-ludwig-artworks.htm#pnt_6

Deutsch: Nollendorfplatz (1912)

Artwork description & Analysis: Deutsch: Nollendorfplatz reveals Kirchner's shift in subject matter from the female nude to depictions of the metropolis. Here, the perspective is skewed, a clear rejection of his previous study of architecture. The quick, gestural use of line creates a sense of immediacy and speed within the piece, capturing the essence of a busy German city. The use of clashing blues and yellows to depict the cityscape is typical of Kirchner's style during the Die Brucke years, though the distorted imagery of the city may also have been inspired by an exhibition of Italian Futurist art that he saw in the year that this was painted.

Oil on canvas - The Museum of Modern Art

http://www.theartstory.org/artist-kirchner-ernst-ludwig-artworks.htm#pnt_6