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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Poster for Die Brücke 1907 lithograph Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Portrait of Otto Müller 1915 hand-colored woodcut Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Seated Nude ca. 1909 pastel and crayon Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Two Girls seated on a rug ca. 1910 black crayon Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Winter Night in Moonlight 1918 color woodcut (four blocks) Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Man and Woman ca. 1909 drawing, with watercolor Art Institute of Chicago |
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) – A student of architecture in Dresden and briefly of painting in Munich, he came to art wanting to bring new energies into people's lives. . . . With his Brücke friends he developed a brusque and colourful style of painting, full of animal vigour. . . . His Dresden studio was dramatized by quasi-barbaric hangings, sculpture and furniture, some of which can be seen in his pictures. . . . In 1911 he moved to Berlin and found a new theme and note in his paintings of metropolitan streets and their promise of dangerous pleasures. Vigour was replaced by stridency. . . . He dominated the Brücke group. This led to its disbanding in 1913 when his Chronicle of its history and aims was felt by others to be too exclusively devoted to his particular priorities. He also wrote art criticism, including reviews of his own work, under the pseudonym Louis de Marsalle. . . . Army service led to a breakdown from which he never fully recovered. In 1917 he was sent for his health to Switzerland and he lived there until his suicide.
– extracts from The Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists by Erika Langmuir and Norbert Lynton (Yale University Press, 2000)
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Two Nudes 1905 colored chalk Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Two Women 1912 pastel and charcoal Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Moonlit Night at the Stable Door 1919 lithograph (five stones) Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Portrait of Gustav Schiefler ca. 1922 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Gerda Schilling, the artist's sister-in-law ca. 1912-14 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner The Café 1936 color woodcut (two blocks) Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Toilette 1922 color woodcut (two blocks in four colors) Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner The Blond Painter, Stirner 1919 color woodcut (three blocks) Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Portrait of Ferdinand Hodler 1917 color woodcut (two blocks) Art Institute of Chicago |