Artist: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880 - 1938)
Nationality: German
Movement: Expressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany and originally studied architecture in Dresden. In 1905, Krichner, along with fellow students Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Ruttluf began the Die Brucke movement. His paintings incorporated angular forms, bold and contrasting colors, and expressive themes. Kirchner served in the infantry in World War I, and afterwards recovered in Switzerland, painting scenes of the mountainous landscapes. Kirchner committed suicide in Davos, Switzerland in 1938.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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The Work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1926, Printed material and six woodcuts on wove paper
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Ex Libris Professor Ernst Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1904, Woodcut on wove paper
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Prospectus for ”Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Das graphische Werk von Gustav Schiefler 1924-26, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1924, Four pages of text with color woodcuts
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Titelblatt: Die Graphik Ernst Ludwig Kirchners bis 1924 von Gustav Schiefler: Band I bis 1916 (Title Page: The Graphics of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner to 1924 by Gustav Schiefler: Volume I to 1916), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 -
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Drawings by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1925, Printed material with nineteen woodcuts on wove and linen papers
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Prospectus for The work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner by W. Grohmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1926, Printed material and one woodcut printed in dark blue and black
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner exhibition, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1933, Printed material and five woodcuts printed in brown on wove paper plus woodcut on cover stock
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The graphic work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner to 1924: Volume 1, to 1916, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1924-1926, Printed material and fifty-three woodcuts on smooth wove paper
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Portrait of Ludwig Schames, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1918, Woodcut
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Artist: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Title: Portrait of Ludwig Schames Date: 1917 Medium: woodcut Dimensions: H.22-1/4
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Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt am Main: Pictures by E. L. Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1919, Woodcut on yellow cover stock
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The graphic work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Volume 2, 1917-1927, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1927-1931, Printed material with sixty-one (six in color) woodcuts on smooth wove paper plus color woodcut on cover
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Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt a. M.: Graphics by E. L. Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1920, Printed material and three woodcuts on wove paper and cover stock
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Titelblatt der Ausstellung Bilder von E.L. Kirchner, Galerie Ludwig Schames, Frankfurt 1919, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1919, Woodcut on yellow cover stock
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Street Scene Etching 1915
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Kopf Sohn Hardt Woodcut 1915
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Cows in the Moonlight Etching with hand washes by the artist 1918
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Portrait of Dichter Sch. Etching on zinc 1927
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The work of E.L. Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1925, Woodcut printed in blue on wove paper
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Sunday in the Alps, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1922, Oil on canvas
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Two Nudes in a Room, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1914, Oil on canvas
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Drei Akte, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1911, Woodcut
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Two Women, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1911-1912/1922, Oil on canvas
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Woman taking off her shirt standing nude Etching 1915
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Ex. Libris Ernst Backhausen I, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1907, Woodcut on thin wove paper
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Artist: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Title: Bern with Belltower Date: 1935 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions:
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Title: Seated Woman Date: 1910 - 1920 Medium: oil on canvas
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Man and woman, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1910, Woodcut on wove paper
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Bathers, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1910, Woodcut on wove paper
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Untitled, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1907, Woodcut on wove paper
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Dance, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1910, Woodcut on wove paper
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Artist: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Title: Dresden: Schlossplatz Date: 1926 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.47-1/4
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Deserted Island, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , circa 1912-1913, Black ink
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Strasse mit Omnibus (Street with Bus ) Woodcut 1926
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Couple, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1909, Pencil on brown wrapping paper
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Train (a child drawing of Kirchner’s), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , Woodcut on smooth wove paper
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Exhibition of new paintings and graphics by E. L. Kirchner, 1916-1921, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1921, Printed material and four woodcuts on wove paper
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Bathers in rocks, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1921, Woodcut on handmade paper
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Two nude women, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1913, Woodcut on laid paper
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Triumph of love, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1911, Woodcut on laid paper
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Inactive members 4, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1910, Woodcut on wove paper
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Catalogue of the E. L. Kirchner exhibition, Galerie Schames, Frankfurt, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1916, Printed material and 2 woodcuts on cover stock
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Inactive members 1, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1907, Woodcut on wove paper
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Untitled, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1916, Woodcut on pink wove paper
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Seated nude, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1910, Woodcut on wove paper
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Promenaders under trees (a child drawing of Kirchner’s), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , Woodcut on smooth wove paper
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Zwei Akte am Fenster (Two Nudes at the Window) lithograph printed on yellow paper 1915
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Woman reading, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1913, Woodcut on heavy wove paper
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Still Life with Jug and African Bowl, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1912, Oil on canvas
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Farm with trees, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1906, Woodcut on heavy handmade paper
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Standing female nude, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1905, Woodcut on wove paper
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Three acrobats at the rings, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1912, Lithograph on heavy wove paper
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The painter and two women, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1927, Woodcut on heavy wove paper
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Titlepage-rejected, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1922-1924, Woodcut on blotting paper
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Artist: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Title: Reclining Female Nude Date: about 1924 Medium: watercolor, graphite and
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Toilette, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1912, Woodcut on thin pink wove paper
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Inactive members 3, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1909-1910, Woodcut on wove paper
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Toilette, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1912, Woodcut on thin pink wove paper
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Inactive members 2, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1907-1909, Woodcut on wove paper
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Trench diggers by the Tiber, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, Aschaffenburg, 1880-05-06 - 1938-06-15) , 1910, Woodcut on wove paper

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (14)
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Cobra Museum: From Kandinsky till Corneille, Linoleum in art during the 20th century.
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Museum of Modern Art: ModernStarts: Places
Landscape painting between 1880 and 1920 ranged from idealized and allegorical depictions of nature, as seen in the ...
JEWISH MUSEUM: Berlin Metropolis: Jews And The New Culture, 1890-1918
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National Gallery of Art: A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
Examples by great old masters who created some of their most powerful work after the turn of the century--Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and Winslow Homer--are shown side by side with works by the younger generation of artists, such as Pablo Picasso,...
Galerie St. Etienne: Coming of Age: Egon Schiele and the Modernist Culture of Youth
"COMING OF AGE" also includes works by Erich Heckel, E.L. Kirchner, Oskar Kokoschka, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Edvard Munch and others. At the turn of the 20th century, the notion of adolescence as a distinct developmental phase between childhood...
MoMA QNS: Masterworks of German Expressionism
Also featured are works by artists active after World War I, such as Max Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz, who found that the bold, graphic use of black-and-white printmaking perfectly suited their stark, socially critical imagery. Printmaking was of c...
Milwaukee Art Museum: The Last Show of the Century: A History of the 20th Century Through Its Art
Twentieth-century artists have been keenly aware of their social environment, perhaps to a greater degree than artists in any other century. Using a time line as its basis, this exhibition will count off the major historical ev...
Michael Werner Gallery: Recent Paintings by Georg Baselitz
All of the works in the exhibition have direct sources in paintings the artist made as a teenager during the 1950s, and in fact certain works bear the dates ‘1953’, ‘1954’ or ‘1955’ as part of their iconography. This combination of personal histo...
Galerie St. Etienne: Cafe Culture: Art and Society in Early 20th Century Austria and Germany
The café and its nighttime counterpart, the cabaret, were meeting grounds for all members of society in early twentieth century Austria and Germany, fermenting artistic movements and influencing artists’ subject matter. The cross-fertilization tha...
Portland Museum of Art: German Expressionist Graphics: The Bradford Collection
The Bradford collection features the work of 16 artists, including self-portraits by Max Beckmann in drypoint, lithography, and woodcut, monumental etchings from Käthe Kollwitz's series on the Peasant War, and prints by Otto Dix that convey the de...
Ketterer Kunst: Spring Auctions Begin With Modern Art on Paper in Hamburg
Nu pour Cleveland was made 14 years earlier. This signed engraving of 1932 by Henri Matisse is more than just an appreciation of femininity. It is estimated at DM 15,000 - 17,000. Another outstanding work of the auction is Marc Chagalls Piro...
Ketterer Kunst: Self-portrait by Albert Birkle is Highlight of Auction Moderne and Gegenwart
Classic modern art is headed by Emil Nolde’s Schiff im Dock (Ship in a Dockyard). The engraving and shaded etching of 1910 is accompanied by an authenticated photograph signed by Prof. Dr. Martin Urban. It is estimated at DM 20,000 – 24,000. ...
Forum for Contemporary Art: Stephan Balkenhol: New Works
In his own words, [he] does not seek to capture heroic glories of bygone days, but rather to demon...
Phillips Collection: Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Notably, the Atheneum was the first museum in the world to purchase a painting by Salvador Dalí (1931) and the first American museum to acquire works by surrealist Joan Miró (1934), the Paris-born painter known as Balthus (1938), and American surr...

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