Research: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Today I will look for Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a driving force in the Dresden and Berlin-based Die Brücke group before World War I. He is now known as one of Germany's most talented and influential Expressionists. Kirchner had conflicting feelings about the past and the present. He was driven by the same fears that drove the movement as a whole: worries about humanity's place in the modern world and its loss of spirituality and authenticity. He liked Albrecht Dürer and brought back the old art of woodblock printing. He thought of himself as part of the German tradition, but he didn't like academic styles and got his ideas from the city. After the war, illness forced him to move to Davos, Switzerland, where he painted many landscapes. Eventually, he was shunned by the rest of the German art world. When the Nazis came to power in the early 1930s, they started a campaign against "degenerate art," which also hurt him. He eventually killed himself because he was sad and sick.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Here also one of his famous work below:

Adabted from, Deutsch: Nollendorfplatz.

According to the art story, here is one of his famosu pieces of work was the perspective is skewed, a clear rejection of his previous study of architecture. The quick, gestural use of lines gives the piece a feeling of speed and immediacy, which is like a busy German city. Kirchner's style during the Die Brücke years was to paint cityscapes with blues and yellows that clashed. The distorted images of the city may have been inspired by an Italian Futurist art show he saw the same year that this was painted.

Refreances:

https://www.theartstory.org/artist/kirchner-ernst-ludwig/