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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

(1880–1938) Painter

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a painter.

Quick Facts About Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Born: May 6, 1880
Died: June 15, 1938
Profession: Painter

About Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

[Wikidata] German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker (1880–1938)... | [Wikipedia] 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

Quotes by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Change

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Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops [in Berlin]. Out of the naturalistic surface…

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Determined

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You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Can do

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People become artists out of despair.

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Art

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A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

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Appearance

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They [his 'Street Scene' paintings and drawings,he made in Berlin] originated in the years 1911-14, in one of the loneliest times of…

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Agonizing

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The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting…

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Art

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All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key…

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Art

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Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Force

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It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings…

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Form

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I begin with movement... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement..

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Believe

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