Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

by Lloyd, Jill; Moeller, Magdalen; ; ;

• ISBN13: 9781903973189
• ISBN10: 190397318X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-11
• Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts

Summary

One of the most prolific and creative of the German Expressionists, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) is noted for his mastery of the human form and the startling contrasts of pure color in his paintings. This gorgeous book--the first publication in English in 30 years on this leader of the Die Brucke movement--presents almost 150 of Kirchner's finest paintings, watercolors, prints, and sculptures, together with essays by leading scholars. Of all the artists in the early modern period, Kirchner was most responsive to the underlying tension between nature and civilization that fascinated his generation. This preoccupation culminates in his paintings of metropolitan Berlin, where he combines elegance with fierce rawness to reveal the potential wildness of the crowd. His master-pieces from the years 1905 to 1915, his most important and innovative period, are the focus of this book and the exhibition it accompanies, opening at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in March 2003.

Table of Contents

President's Foreword	7	(2)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Expressionist	9	(6)
Norman Rosenthal
Kirchner's Metaphysical Studio Paintings	15	(8)
Jill Lloyd
Kirchner as a German Artist	23	(4)
Magdalena M. Moeller
War, Art and Crisis: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1914--1918	27	(6)
Roland Scotti
The Sculptures of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner	33	(6)
Wolfgang Henze
Kirchner in America and Britain	39	(7)
Andrew Robison
Notes	46	(3)
Catalogue	49	(160)
E. L. Kirchner's Drawings	209	(2)
On Kirchner's Graphic Works	211	(4)
Louis de Marsalle (Kirchner)
Chronology	215	(13)
Andreas Gabelmann
Selected Bibliography	228	(4)
List of Works	232	(5)
List of Lenders	237	(1)
Photographic Acknowledgements	237