Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

1880–1938 · Expressionism & Early Modernism

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker. He was one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. Kirchner volunteered for army service in the First World War, but soon suffered a breakdown and was discharged. His work was branded as "degenerate" by the Nazis in 1933, and in 1937 more than 600 of his works were sold or destroyed.

40 paintings

• Die Klosterser Berge (1923)
• Wrestlers in a Circus (1909)
• Artistin (Marcella) (1910)
• Self-Portrait (1914)
• Nude Combing Hair (1913)
• Girl under a Japanese umbrella (1909)
• Dancing Scene (1911)
• Tanz im Varieté (Steptanz) (1911)
• Erich Heckel and Otto Mueller Playing Chess (1913)
• Street Scene (Friedrichstraße Berlin) (1914)
• Erich Heckel und Modell im Atelier (1905)
• Zirkusszene (1911)
• Violette Bäume (1914)
• Kopf Redslob (1924)
• Liegender Akt vor Spiegel (1910)
• Nude Figure [reverse] (1915)
• Villa in Dresden (1910)
• Czardas Dancers
• Sertig Valley in Autumn (1925)
• Flock of sheep (1938)
• Knave with sweeties (1918)
• Nude Woman at window (1922)
• Scene at a Café (1926)
• Frauenbildnis (Portrait of a Woman) (1911)
• Five Bathing Women at a Lake (1911)
• Dancing Couple in the Snow [reverse] (1928-1929)
• Two Nudes [obverse] (1907)
• Nude Figure [reverse] (1907)
• Dance Hall Bellevue [obverse] (1909/1910)
• The Visit - Couple and Newcomer (1922)
• Two Girls under an Umbrella (1910)
• Fränzi in front of Carved Chair (1910)
• Curving Bay (1917)
• Street With Red Streetwalker (1925)
• Kneeling Nude in front of Red Screen (verso: Seated Nude with Bent Leg) (1912)
• Doris with Ruffed Collar (1906)
• The Loam Pit (1906)
• Alpine Kitchen (1918)
• The Junkerboden under Snow (1938)
• Seated Female Nude. Study (verso) (1922)