The 800 Artworks of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - The Judgement of ParisThe Judgement of ParisErnst Ludwig Kirchner

The Judgement of Paris deploys before our eyes, and those of the lustful man sitting in the dark, three women - goddesses or prostitutes ? - in a setting which might very well be a brothel ; the feminine figures expose themselves in a troubling way displaying their greenish flesh, their sharply angl...

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Portrait of Hans FrischPortrait of Hans FrischErnst Ludwig Kirchner

Kirchner was a German Expressionist who conveyed the anxiety of urban life before World War I. He made this painting by squeezing paint from tubes directly onto the canvas and then shaping it with a palette knife.

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - The Drinker (self-portrait)The Drinker (self-portrait)Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Important self-portrait from this period, The Drinker, was painted in 1915 in Kirchner's Berlin studio, before he was sent to Halle.3 This self-portrait conveys Kirchner's despair about his situation, a despair that turned into horror in the Oberlin painting.

Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Nuremberg, Germany)
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Self-Portrait with a ModelSelf-Portrait with a ModelErnst Ludwig Kirchner

Self-Portrait at Dawn, a lithograph of 1906, or Self-Portrait with Model, an oil painting of 1907 2 --are dominated by an erotic tension between the model and the artist. In those works the artist paints confidently while smoking a pipe. In the Oberlin self-portrait, the model and canvas function as...

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - The Red Tower at HalleThe Red Tower at HalleErnst Ludwig Kirchner

The painting shows the so called “red tower” a freestanding late Gothic bell tower wuth a Gothic brick base, one of the landmarks of the city of Halle. It stands on same square as the Marktkirche (the church to the left in the background) which Feininger chose as a motif in his work. The square is p...

Museum Folkwang (Essen, Germany)
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Women in the streetWomen in the streetErnst Ludwig Kirchner

“Women in the Street” (1915) has startling chartreuse background with dark forest green dress and deep blue dress worn by the familiar prostitutes, framed centrally again. A rather effeminate man stands to the right, almost blending with the women, but his trousers peeking from beneath his coat and ...

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Five Bathing Women at a LakeFive Bathing Women at a LakeErnst Ludwig Kirchner

Five Bathing at a Lake (Deutsch: Fünf badende am See) is a painting by the German expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938). It is made on nude painting genre and expressionism style. The classic painting of Kirchner displays physicality a group of five women bathing at a lake, one wit...

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Sledge in the FogSledge in the FogErnst Ludwig Kirchner

'In 1917, Modigliani held a one-man exhibition in Paris, which was closed within a few hours by the Paris Chief of Police, who considered the nudes shocking and scandalous. This painting was created in 1917, and thus it may be the culprit behind Modigliani’s failure, as it was the only exhibition he...

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - The Red Tower in HalleThe Red Tower in HalleErnst Ludwig Kirchner

This painting now resides in Piero della Francesca’s hometown of San Sepolcro, at the Museo Civico. The painting depicts the figure of Christ standing over four sleeping soldiers. The artist included a self-portrait in the figure of the sleeping soldier who is dressed in brown. During World War II, ...


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