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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) 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.
Die Brücke (The Bridge), also known as Künstlergruppe Brücke or KG Brücke, was a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905. The founding members were Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Later members were Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, and Otto Mueller.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: In the garden of the coffee-house (in German: Im Cafégarten, 1914) Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Nude combing her hair (in German: Sich kämmender Akt, 1913) Opened in 1967, it features around 400 paintings and sculptures and several thousand drawings, watercolours and prints by members of Die Brücke , the movement founded in ...
German expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, who is known for his vibrant abstract pieces, was included on the Nazis “degenerate art” list which saw over 600 of his works sold or destroyed ...
Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism, 1905–1913 opened on February 26, 2009, and ran through June 29, 2009. Featuring more than 100 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, it was the first major exhibition in the United States to focus on the pioneering artists of the Expressionist group known as the Brücke. The show was organized by ...
The street scenes are a series of works by the German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner made between 1913 and 1915. The cycle is regarded as one of the most important works of German expressionism. It consists of 11 paintings, 32 pages from sketchbooks, 15 ink brush drawings, 17 pastel and chalk drawings, 14 woodcuts, 14 etchings and 8 lithographs.
Berlin Street Scene (German: Berliner Straßenszene) is a 1913 painting from the cycle Street scenes, by the German expressionist artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.The cycle, created by Kirchner between 1913 and 1915, often depicts "Kokotten" (prostitutes) with their clients, and is regarded as one of the most important works of German Expressionism.
The Kirchner Museum was founded in Davos in 1982 and was housed at first in the old post office building in Davos Platz. The Swiss art collector and dealer Eberhard W. Kornfeld, who had already acquired Kirchner's final house on Wildboden in Frauenkirch, near Davos, in the 1960s, and opened there his Kirchner collection to the public, on weekends, was instrumental in setting it up.