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Kirchener, Ernst Ludwig Biography German painter, a key figure in Expressionism and member of Die Brucke. A student of architecture in Dresden and briefly of oil painting in Munich, Ernst Ludwig Kirchener came to art wanting to bring new energies into people's lives. His Dresden studio was dramatized by quasi-barbaric hangings, sculpture and furniture, some of which can be seen in his paintings. Ernst Ludwig Kirchener developed a brusque and colorful style of oil painting, full of vigor, best seen in his pictures of male and female bathers. In 1911 Ernst Ludwig Kirchener moved to Berlin and found a new theme and note in his oil paintings of metropolitan streets and their promise of dangerous pleasures. Vigor was replaced by stridency, yet the first Berlin years saw some of his most powerful images, mostly portraits of himself and others. Army service led to a breakdown from which he never fully recovered. In 1917 he was sent for his health to Switzerland and he lived there until his suicide. His later oil paintings combine echoes of his pre-war work with borrowings from international figurative modernism. You can buy Ernst Ludwig Kirchener fine art reproduction oil paintings at Galerie Dada. Just click on the 'Back' button. |
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