Kirchner

by Norbert Wolf

Book Overview

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) is regarded as one of the key figures in 20th-century European art. A Modernist to his bones, he sent seismic waves through the art world with his hard-edged,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3822821233
• ISBN13: 9783822821237
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.4" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

While You're Reading Herta Müller ...

... and believe me, you SHOULD be reading Herta Müller, the Romanian-German 2009 Nobel prize for Literature winner ... you may want to spend some time looking at the great painters of the "Brücke" - Erich Heckel, Otto Müller, Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Emile Nolde, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The Brücke was a loose collaboration of 'expressionist' painters centered in Berlin in the early years of the 20th Century. Most of them were dead before Herta Müller could write her own name, and I have no evidence upon which to assert that Herta M drew inspiration from Expressionism directly, but her writings remind me of Kirchner and the others, being bold to the point of discomfort, anguished and lurid, simultaneously primitive and ultra-sophisticated. Even the photo of Herta M that appears on some of her books looks remarkably like the woman in the pink dress on the cover of this Taschen book of Ernst Kirchner. Same hair-do, same benignly arrogant expression. In any case, the Taschen 'Basic Arts' books are a wonder of the modern world that you should know and enjoy. And Ernie Kirchner was no slouch as a painter. There ought to be a "Taschen of the Month" club! Any entrepreneurs on hand?