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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German Painter German (1880 - 1938) View objects by this artist.

Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig (1880-1938), German painter, who was one of the leading practitioners of expressionism. He was influenced by the strong colors and compositional distortions of neoimpressionism and by the expressiveness of African and Oceanian woodcarving. As a founding member of the expressionist group Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden in 1905, Kirchner tried to distill natural forms in radical and sometimes brutal simplifications. In such paintings as Self-Portrait with Model (1907, Kunsthalle, Hamburg), his bold lines and clashing colors create a sense of violent emotion. Moving to Berlin in 1911, Kirchner produced some of the most characteristic work of German expressionism, especially in scenes with women, such as Five Women in the Street (1913, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne), in which grotesque distortions mock the mannered artificiality of Berlin society. His work in the late 1920s became increasingly abstract as he attempted to solve theoretical questions. The Nazis deemed him a degenerate artist and confiscated 600 of his paintings. Soon afterward, he committed suicide.



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1880
6. May: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is born in Aschaffenburg as a son of a paper chemist.


1901
Beginning of the study of architecture at the technical university in Dresden. At the same time Kirchner visits a private art school.


1903/04
Study at the technical university in Munich. Continuation of the study in Dresden.
With an exhibition in Munich Kirchner discovers the painting of the group of "Phalanx " and the French Neo Impressionisten led by Wassily Kandinsky.


1904
Return to Dresden.
Acquaintance with the students of architecture Erich Heckel , Fritz Bleyl (1880-1966) and Karl Schmidt Rottluff .


1905
They create the artist combination " the bridge" together.


1906
Kirchner transfers Heckels studio in the Dresdner worker quarter.
To its preferential topics belong beside documents and Portraets also landscapes, city opinions and the world of the Varietés.


1910
Acquaintance with petrol Mueller in Berlin.


1911
Removal of the bridge artists to Berlin. The world of the Varietés and the circus painting and graphics become new topics in Kirchners.
Together with max pitch stone it creates Institut "modern instruction in painting" (MUIM), who remains however unsuccessful.


1912
Participation in the special federation exhibition (Cologne).


1913
From the dissolution of the "bridge" Kirchner paints a number of large sized road scenes, like e.g.. "citizen of Berlin road scene".
First single exhibitions in the Folkwang museum (Hagen).


1914
Kirchner refers a roof studio in Friedenau (Berlin).


1915/16
Freiwilliger war service as drivers in an artillery regiment.
After a physical and mental collapse Kirchner goes for treatment into a sanatorium with king stone (Taunus).


1917
Removal after Davos.
Kirchner over-old old pictures and dates it forwards, in order to accent its art-historical position differently.


1921
Kirchners of works are shown in the citizen of Berlin Kronprinzenpalais (department of the national gallery).


1923
Removal into a farmhouse after Frauenkirch Wildboden with Davos.


1926
Kirchner travels to Germany, where he suffers from depressions and weakness accumulations.


1930
A linear abstracting mark way marks the last phase of its work.


1933
The arts center Berne issues works of Kirchner.


1937
Single exhibition in the arts center Basel and in the art museum of Detroit (the USA).
The national socialists diffamieren Kirchner as "degenerated artist" and seize 639 of his works from German museums. 32 of its works is shown in the exhibition "degenerate art".


1938
15. June: From diseases attacked and desperately over the development of Germany, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in Frauenkirch Wildboden suicide commits.

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