Ernst Kirchner

Ernst Kirchner was a German Expressionist painter. He studied architecture at Dresden (1901 - 1905) where he met Heckel and Schmidt-Rottluff, co-founders in 1905 of Die Bruke. His style was the first manifestation of German Expressionism - superficially similar to Parisian Fauvism, but deliberately more violent and directly expressive of human emotions. Kirchner suffered a nervous breakdown during World War I and convalesced (1917) at Davos, where he continued to live. His late landscapes were more serene, profound formalizations at their purest (1921-1925) and then became abstract in 1928. His art was suppressed as 'degenerate' by Nazis (1937) and he committed suicide in 1938.

Ernst Kirchner Images:
Mountain Landscape From Clavadel