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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.
The Kirchnerhaus, also known as KirchnerHAUS Aschaffenburg eV (English: House Kirchner), is an historical house museum in Aschaffenburg, the birthplace of the German expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, at Ludwigstraße 19. In 2013, the KirchnerHAUS Aschaffenburg association set up a documentation room in the former apartment of the ...
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.
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.
Archers is an oil-on-canvas painting by German painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, created in 1935–1937, at his Swiss home town of Davos. It belongs to his last phase, in which he abandoned the Expressionism of his earlier work. The painting depicts three people engaged in the sport of archery. On the back it bears the signature EL Kirchner.
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 ...
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 ...
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