Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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Still Life with Jug and African Bowl by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1912
Los Angeles County Museum of Art · wikidata.org
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He kept African and Pacific carvings around his studio and painted them into scenes like this one — the bowl in the title is one of them.
Erisava: This looks like nobody tidied up before painting it.
Girl in White Chemise by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1914
Yale University Art Gallery · wikidata.org
Public domain
He was part of a group in Dresden that called itself the Bridge — apparently they shared a studio, painted their friends fast and cheap, and wanted nothing to do with the polite art of the day. It's said the group fell apart a year or so after this, partly over a history of it he wrote himself.
Erisava: None of these colours should go together, and somehow it still works.
Wrestlers in a Circus by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1909
Cleveland Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
They say Kirchner and his Die Brücke friends thought cheap, loud entertainment — circuses, wrestling matches, variety halls — was more honest than anything on a proper stage.
Erisava: Is this actually a fight, or does it just look violent because of the colors?
Two Girls under an Umbrella by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910
National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
He was one of a bunch of architecture students in Dresden who, they say, wanted painting faster and rawer than the academies allowed — supposedly they'd draw models in quarter-hour poses so nobody had time to get precious about it.
Erisava: Would anyone hang this if the colours were toned down to normal?