Still Life with Glasses

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner1912/1912

Details

Title: Still Life with Glasses
Creator: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Creator Lifespan: 1880/1938
Creator Nationality: Germany
Creator Gender: Male
Date: 1912/1912
Date Created: 1912/1912
Physical Dimensions: w74 x h100 cm
Type: oil on canvas
Rights: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, In 1905, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) formed Die Brücke (The Bridge), one of Germany’s leading Expressionist art groups, with the aim of producing art free from social conventions. In this work, a primitive wooden fruit bowl Kirchner made himself sits on a table together with glasses and a wine cooler, with a wall hanging featuring a naked man and woman depicted in a style reminiscent of African or Oceanian art in the background. One can sense here the contrast between modern and primitive, artificial and natural. The influence of Cézanne and the Cubist artists of the same period can be discerned in the simplified forms and the incorporation of multiple viewpoints, as seen in the dramatically rising table and the wall hanging, which is depicted as if viewed frontally.

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