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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German Expressionism

Today I bring you a genre that also stood out in the rupture of impressionism, as I have mentioned on other occasions impressionism is very important because it marks a change in the historical course of art. In today's case, I will be talking about German expressionism from the hand of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Come with me to learn more about this incredible artist.

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany on May 6, 1880. His first incursion into the art world was in the school of applied arts where the young man intended to study architecture but then moved to Munich to study painting in the school of fine arts. In 1903.

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By 1905 he was already deeply immersed in artistic movements and managed to found the art group El Puente, where they felt deeply inspired by French Fauvism. Then the same group begins to renew ideas, is when Kirchner in 1907 moves from the city of Dresden to the city of Moritzburg a rural area where he is in contact with nature and can establish a better relationship with his models, so begins to notice in his way of painting more purity in color, aggressiveness, a force that would give him courage to explore more about painting. By 1908 he settled in Berlin, where most of his artistic group moved.

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In 1911 he gave classes of engraving, painting, and sculpture in the institute MUIM, but soon the same institute would close its doors due to a little receptivity to register in the courses. The characteristics of the German capital allowed him to explore another type of painting more daring and daring, he manages to become sensitive and shows social topics such as street prostitution so he manages to get inspired and paint his famous picture prostitute in red.

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Already by 1912 the group the bridge was noticed in the artistic scene, Kirchner manages to participate in the exhibition number two of the blue rider, and then manages to exhibit in the gallery Gurlitt in Berlin, where he gets the attention of the critics getting good results. Thus, little by little the movement explores other ways of artistic expression until leaving behind the fauvism, each artist acquires his own language or personal seal that would end up dissolving the group in the year 1913.

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A very outstanding fact in his life is the beginning of the Second World War, a war that marked the artist sentimentally by submerging him in a serious nervous crisis, which did not improve in a whole year, the same psychological problem disorientated him in the street suffering an accident, a car would run him over and with luck he did not have serious injuries, then he moves to Switzerland, where he stabilizes and continues painting.

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By the year 1918, he moved to a mountainous area in Switzerland, farther from the city that years, before he loved and served as a source of inspiration, in the countryside obviously, manages to get very good landscapes and is interested in the work of farmers. It took him almost 7 years to recover from his emotional crisis, and then already for years near the Second World War he tries to exhibit his works and although he is successful the depression returns, in 1937 the Nazis confiscate more than 600 works of the artist that were in the city of Munich.

This plunged him into the worst crisis he could have in his life, he locked himself in his apartment in Frauenkirch, Switzerland and with such a psychological imbalance ends his life on June 15, 1938.

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