Artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German, 1880–1938
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German German Expressionism painter. 244 works are cataloged here, principally at National Gallery of Art, most of them oil paintings. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was born in Aschaffenburg.
![Dance Hall Bellevue [obverse]](https://artifactworldgallery.com/img/ernst-ludwig-kirchner--dance-hall-bellevue-obverse--d1e14aac4297c69e-w640.webp)
![Nude Figure [reverse]](https://artifactworldgallery.com/img/ernst-ludwig-kirchner--nude-figure-reverse--4b135f0364753e98-w640.webp)
![Two Nudes [obverse]](https://artifactworldgallery.com/img/ernst-ludwig-kirchner--two-nudes-obverse--eb3914183f0bc96d-w640.webp)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker. He was 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. Kirchner 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.
Works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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Moments involving Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Entartete Kunst — the Degenerate Art Exhibition · 1937 German museums were stripped of modern art; artists were banned, exiled or driven to despair, and the exhibition became the permanent emblem of state war on art.
- Founding of Die Brücke · 1905 The founding act of German Expressionism: the group style forged in their shared Dresden studio defined the movement's first decade.
- Van Gogh and Expressionism Opens · 2007 The exhibition sharpened public understanding of Van Gogh as a catalyst for Expressionist modernism.
- Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism Opens · 2009 The exhibition helped consolidate Brücke's visibility for American audiences as a central origin point of Expressionism.
- Degenerate Art opens at Neue Galerie · 2014 It renewed U.S. museum attention to Nazi attacks on modern art and the afterlives of confiscated works.
- Munch and Expressionism Opens at Neue Galerie · 2016 The exhibition strengthened Munch's position as a transnational catalyst for Expressionism.
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