Kirchner

by Norbert Wolf

A radical innovator, a pioneer of new artistic form German expressionist painter and graphic artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), co-founder of the Brücke movement, produced some of the most outstanding woodcuts and powerful expressionist works of the 20th century. Tragically, he committed suicide after having his work condemned as "degenerate" by the Nazis. About the
Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art Series

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Germany, Biography, Reference

96 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2003

About the author

Norbert Wolf is an art historian and author based in Munich. He has published several books with Prestel, including "Art Nouveau", "Art Deco", "Impressionism", "Spanish Painting", and "The Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish Painting", as well as monographs on Albrecht Dürer and Titian.

Reviews

[Talie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kirchner declared, “Germanic art is religion in the widest sense of the word; Romance [i.e. French] art is reproduction, depiction, description or paraphrasing of nature. A German paints the ‘what’, a Frenchman the ‘how’ ... There are only a very few German artists who have been pathfinders in design, since Dürer almost none.” Kirchner counted himself among the few legitimate heirs of Dürer. He had tracked down form, he said, though of course not for its own sake in the sense of French “art for art’s sake”, but, as another diary entry states, as the “expression of his dreams”, as the vehicle of something spiritual, transcendental.
کیرشنر ایگوی متورمی داشت. گروه پل که او و چند هنرمند دیگر تشکیل داده بودند در اثر خودبرتربینی‌های او از هم پاشید. تاثیراتش از هنرمندان دیگر مثل فووها و نبی‌ها را انکار می‌کرد.

[Sofia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really funny reading accounts how self aggrandizing he was with a lot of sarcasm from the author, good artist though.