Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

May 6, 1880 - Jun 15, 1938

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. He volunteered for army service in the First World War, but soon suffered a breakdown and was discharged. His work was branded as "degenerate" by the Nazis in 1933, and in 1937 more than 600 of his works were sold or destroyed.
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“A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.”

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
May 6, 1880 - Jun 15, 1938

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