About Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker (1880–1938)... | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker. He was one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. Kirchner volunteered for army service in the First World War, but soon suff
![“They [his 'Street Scene' paintings and drawings,he made in Berlin] originated in the years 1911-14, in one of the loneliest times of my life, during which an agonizing restlessness drove me out onto the streets day and night, which were filled with people and cars.” quote by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cd1/ernst-ludwig-kirchner-39003_agonizing_they-his-street-scene-paintings-and-draw_1910235.jpg)
![“Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops [in Berlin]. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface.” quote by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/758/ernst-ludwig-kirchner-39003_determined_every-day-i-studied-the-nude-and-movemen_286738.jpg)
