Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge."

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• A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

• My paintings are allegories not portraits.

• The German artist creates out of his imagination,inner vision,the forms of visible nature are to him only a symbol.

• The way in which I depict people was now influenced very strongly by my third wife..and her sister.The beautiful,shapely architectonically structured bodies of those two girls,replaced the soft Saxon bodies.

[edit] External links

• An Eye on Art: Marcella
• Information on Kirchner and the German Expressionist movement
• The German Expressionists and the ‘Primitive’