Dismissed from war service to recover in Davos’s sanatorium in 1917, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner began transmuting the hectic urban expressionism of his shrill Berlin scenes to hallucinatory Alpine ...

The German Expressionist artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) was a physical and psychological wreck when he first arrived in Davos in 1917. Addicted to alcohol and morphine, he was suffering ...

1. The Legendary Figure of German Expressionism: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was perhaps the most famous artist of the German Expressionist scene, sometimes called the German Picasso.

30 x 25 cm. (11.8 x 9.8 in.) Galerie Günther Franke, "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Private Collection", Munich 1970; Kunstverein Hamburg, "E. L. Kirchner. Gemälde ...

Much German expressionist art was made in the wake ... with an admiration mixed with condescension. Such artists as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (a founder of the Bridge), Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein ...