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KIRCHNER, Ernst Ludwig

Featured Paintings in Detail

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigMarzella 1909-1910Oil on canvas, 76x 60 cmModerna Museet, Stockholm

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigMarzella (detail)1909-1910Oil on canvas, 76x 60 cmModerna Museet, Stockholm

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigMarzella (detail)1909-1910Oil on canvas, 76x 60 cmModerna Museet, Stockholm

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigSeated Girl (Fränzi Fehrmann) 1910 (altered 1920)Oil on canvas, 35.88 x 31.75  cmMinneapolis Institute of Arts

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigSeated Girl (Fränzi Fehrmann) (detail)1910 (altered 1920)Oil on canvas, 35.88 x 31.75  cmMinneapolis Institute of Arts

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigSeated Girl (Fränzi Fehrmann) (detail)1910 (altered 1920)Oil on canvas, 35.88 x 31.75  cmMinneapolis Institute of Arts

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigFränzi in front of a Carved Chair1910Oil on canvas. 71 x 49.5 cmMuseo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigFränzi in front of a Carved Chair (detail)1910Oil on canvas. 71 x 49.5 cmMuseo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigFränzi in front of a Carved Chair (detail)1910Oil on canvas. 71 x 49.5 cmMuseo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigSelf-Portrait, Double Portrait1914Oil on canvas, 60 x49 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigSelf-Portrait, Double Portrait (detail)1914Oil on canvas, 60 x49 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigSelf-Portrait, Double Portrait (detail)1914Oil on canvas, 60 x49 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigThree Bathers1913Oil on canvas, 197.5 x 147.5 cmArt Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigThree Bathers (detail)1913Oil on canvas, 197.5 x 147.5 cmArt Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigThree Bathers (detail)1913Oil on canvas, 197.5 x 147.5 cmArt Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigSelf-Portrait as a Soldier1915Oil on canvas, 69 x 61 cmAllen Memorial Art Museum, Ohio

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigSelf-Portrait as a Soldier (detail)1915Oil on canvas, 69 x 61 cmAllen Memorial Art Museum, Ohio

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KIRCHNER, Ernst Ludwig, Featured Paintings in Detail (2)

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigSelf-Portrait as a Soldier

Self-Portrait as a Soldier examines the psychological distress experienced by Kirchner during his service in the military. He was a reluctant soldier and soon became preoccupied with avoiding service, and following a self-induced psychosis, aided by his use of alcohol and drugs, he was discharged. The painting displays a uniformed Kirchner standing in his studio,

smoking a cigarette. His right hand is severed, symbolizing his trauma and possibly also his anxiety of his loss of manhood; the motif is based on Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with a Bandaged Ear (1889), a picture the artist painted after he too had inflicted injuries upon himself. In the background of Kirchner's picture stands a nude who bears a resemblance to his lover of the time,

Erna Schilling.

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigMarzella (detail)

Around the time this picture was painted Kirchner was spending time around the Moritzberg lakes, and the girl depicted is the daughter of a circus artiste's widow that he met there. Emblematic of his Die Brucke phase, Marzella is a provocative depiction of a young, pre-pubescent girl. The youth of the figure coupled with the intense gaze and heavily made-up face give the appearance of uncanny maturity. Unnatural colors and self-conscious body language add to the unease in the composition. The painting is an example of a technique

of rapid sketching used by members of Die Brucke, who believed this process allowed them to capture the "soul" of the subject. The picture is also indicative of the influence of Edvard Munch on Kirchner's work, since the composition appears to be based on Munch's Puberty (1892).

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigSeated Girl (Fränzi Fehrmann)

In the early decades of twentieth-century Germany, a group of avant-garde artists known as Die Brücke (The Bridge, 1905-13), emerged. Hoping their work would serve as a bridge to the art of the future, they developed a radical new style of painting called Expressionism. This composition, with its deliberate brushstrokes and forceful use of outline, articulates both Ernst

Ludwig Kirchner's and Die Brücke's intent to reveal raw emotion without apologies.

Lina Franziska Fehrmann (1900-1950), the adolescent model for Seated Girl, met Kirchner in 1910. She and her siblings regularly posed for artists in the Die Brücke group.

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigFränzi in front of a Carved Chair

This portrait of a girl from the working-class district of Friedrichstadt in Dresden is one of the finest examples of the Expressionist style of the German group Die Brücke, characterised by the simplification of form and the arbitrary use of colour. Here, Fränzi, who modelled for a number of portraits by Kirchner and other members of the group, sits on a

chair whose back has been carved into the shape of a naked woman. The girl stares defiantly at the viewer as the intense green of her face, defined by thick, unnaturalistic brushstrokes, contrasts sharply with the pink flesh tones of the female figure that frames her. The frontal placing of the sitter suggests the influence of Munch, Van Gogh and

Gauguin, and also recalls Primitive art.

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigSelf-Portrait, Double Portrait

Kirchner painted to figures in this composition, himself and a girl. The expressionist style shows rapid brush strokes and bright colors. Flesh is green and mottled with orange, hair is blue and spiked. The figures do not face each other, rather they are turned toward opposite sides of the picture plane.

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KIRCHNER, Ernst LudwigThree Bathers

The nudes in 'Three bathers' resemble the artist's painted carvings, echoing in turn the sculpted Eves of medieval art as well as African and Pacific statuary. Wearing lipstick and a look of enervation, these Berlin day-trippers huddle defensively in the Baltic waves. Uncannily presaging the coming blitzkrieg, the figures also predict the artist's own

deteriorating health. Conscripted in 1915, Kirchner was discharged six months later with tuberculosis.

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KIRCHNER, Ernst Ludwig

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a driving force in the Die Brücke group that flourished in Dresden and Berlin before World War I, and he has come to be seen as one of the most talented and influential

of Germany's Expressionists. Motivated by the same anxieties that gripped the movement as a whole - fears about humanity's place in the modern world, its lost feelings of spirituality and

authenticity - Kirchner had conflicting attitudes to the past and present. An admirer of Albrecht Dürer, he revived the old art of woodblock printing, and saw himself in the

German tradition, yet he rejected academic styles and was inspired by the modern city.

After the war, illness drove him to settle in Davos, Switzerland, where he painted many landscapes, and, ultimately, he found himself ostracized from mainstream German art. When the Nazis rose to

power in the early 1930s he was also a victim of their campaign against "Degenerate Art." Depressed and ill, he eventually committed suicide.