Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a famous German artist associated with the Expressionists and the Die Brücke or The Bridge art movements. He is best known for his bold and expressive portraits, figure groups, landscapes and cityscapes. Famous Ernst Ludwig Kirchner artworks include “Brücke bei Wiesen”, “Landscape in Graubünden with Sun Rays”, “Self-portrait as a Sick Person”, “Brandenburger Tor”, “Der Rote Turm in Halle”, “Berlin Street Scene”, “Portrait of a Woman”, “Marzella”, “Seated Girl (Fränzi Fehrmann)”, “Three Bathers”, and “Modern Bohemia”.
Mini biography: Born Ernst Ludwig Kirchner on the 6th of May, 1880 in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany. His mother was Maria Elise and his father Ernst Kirchner was a chemical engineer. The artist died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on the 15th of June, 1938 in Davos, Switzerland at the age of 58. Kirchner is buried at the Waldfriedhof Cemetery, Davos in Switzerland.
List of Famous Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Art Quotes
Art gives us an inner superiority, for it has scope for every sensation of which human beings are capable, and first and foremost for love, which is the basis for knowledge. The artist loves without wanting to possess, and no one on earth can understand that except other artists, that is why other people think us mad. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
My paintings are allegories not portraits. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Life is unfixed when one lives in Berlin, where one has to fight for a living. It is painfully base here. I see that a fine, free culture cannot be created under these circumstances and wish to leave as soon as I have overcome this big slump. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Nowhere does one come to know an artist better than in his prints and the woodcut is the most graphic of the print processes. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
The heaviest burden of all is the pressure of the war and the increasing superficiality. It gives me incessantly the impression of a bloody carnival. I feel as though the outcome is in the air and everything is topsy-turvy.. All the same, I keep on trying to get some order in my thoughts and to create a picture of the age out of confusion, which is after all my function. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Art is made by man. His own figure is the center of all art. Therefore one must begin with the man himself. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Theories may be all very well for keeping a spiritual balance, but they are grey and shadowy compared with work and life. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Believing in development, in a new generation of those who create and those who enjoy, we call together the youth of today. And as a youth which bears the future, we aim to create space to live and work, as opposition to the well-established, older powers. Everyone who reproduces, directly and without illusion, whatever he senses the urge to create, belongs to us. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Self Portrait Painting
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