Word: kirchner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...over academic traces and struck out for themselves. They shared studio, brushes, paint and their models. They exhibited their work, unsigned, together. They shared the subsequent outcry when the distorted figures and "unnatural" color of their painting shocked Germany. The boldest of them was irascible, 25-year-old Ernst Kirchner, who had been inspired by primitive art he had seen at the Dresden Ethnological Museum. Before the group broke up in 1913, its name, Die Brücke (The Bridge), had become famous, it had been joined by some of Germany's most promising younger artists...
...cubists. For the London show, Austrian-born Oskar Kokoschka sent a wry Self-Portrait of a Degenerate Artist. A second canvas arrived in four pieces, hacked by Vienna police when Nazis seized Austria. Symbolizing the end of a chapter in German art more poignantly than any exhibition, Founder Ernst Kirchner died of tuberculosis in Davos, Switzerland, as the London Exhibition of 20th Century German Art was being assembled for its opening...