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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.
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.
The figurative work of Francis Bacon, Frida Kahlo, Edward Hopper, Lucian Freud Andrew Wyeth and others served as a kind of alternative to abstract expressionism. One of the most well-known images in 20th-century American art is Wyeth's painting, Christina's World, currently in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. It ...
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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.
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 ...
Claude Kirchner (1916–1993), American television announcer and children's personality; Emma Kirchner (1830–1909), German photographer who lived and worked in the Netherlands. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), German Expressionist artist; Ignaz Kirchner (1946–2018), German actor; Jaime Lee Kirchner (1981), American actress