Author: William Sherwin SimmonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Streetwalkers : Art, Luxury, and Immorality in Berlin, 1913-16
Author: William Sherwin SimmonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Kirchner and the Berlin Street
Author: Deborah WyePublisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780870707414
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's remarkable series of paintings known as the Berlin Street Scenes is a highpoint of the artist's work and a milestone of German Expressionism, widely seen as a metaphor for modernity itself through their depiction of life in a major metropolis. Kirchner moved from Dresden to Berlin in 1911, and it was in this teeming city, immersed in its vitality, decadence and underlying sense of danger posed by the imminent World War I, that he created the Street Scenes in a sustained burst of creative energy and ambition between 1913 and 1915. As the most extensive consideration of these paintings in English, this richly illustrated volume examines the creative process undertaken by the artist as he explores his theme through various mediums, and presents the major body of related charcoal drawings, pen-and-ink studies, pastels, etchings, woodcuts and lithographs he created in addition to the paintings. The volume also investigates the significance of the streetwalker as a primary motif, and provides insight on the series in the context of Kirchner's wider oeuvre.
New Perspectives on Br?cke Expressionism
Author: Christian WeikopPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351556444
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
New Perspectives on Br?cke Expressionism: Bridging History brings together highly-renowned international art historians in a scholarly work that offers the first full-length reassessment in English of the importance of the Br?cke group to German modernism specifically and to international modernism more generally. It challenges, interrogates and updates existing orthodoxies in the field of Br?cke studies by deploying new research combined with innovative interpretative approaches. This is an exciting volume of essays with an interlinking tripartite structure that charts the significance of this pioneering German avant-garde group in relation to various critical themes, namely, 'cultural and material identity', 'collectivity and selfhood', as well as 'defamation and rehabilitation'. The book is unique in the field in that it seeks to excavate specific historical research relating to the activities of the Br?cke as a bohemian yet nonetheless enterprising artists' community, and considers the contributions of the key members in relation to the dynamics of that group rather than simply on an individual basis. It thoroughly explores the historiography of the Br?cke artists' reception throughout the turbulent history of the twentieth century up until the present day.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Author: Pamela KortPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
A founding member of the early twentieth century German avant garde artists' group "Die Brücke," Ernst Ludwig Kirchner moved to Berlin in 1912 and became enthralled by what he called "the symphony of the great city." He responded to the intensity of Berlin's street life by recording the urban spectacle around him--most notably in "Berlin Street Scene" (1913-14), which is widely considered one of the greatest German paintings of the twentieth century. This beautifully illustrated, scholarly volume--written and edited by the noted independent curator and art historian Pamela Kort--provides a full exploration of the history and significance of Kirchner's masterpiece. Featuring full reproductions and details of "Berlin Street Scene" and other related artworks, as well as plentiful documentary photographs and supporting materials, this volume illuminates the ominous force of nervous energy and sexual tension that Kirchner sensed lurking beneath the veneer of civilized life.
Max Pechstein: The Rise and Fall of Expressionism
Author: Bernhard FuldaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110282089
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Max Pechstein (1881–1955) is one of the most prominent German artists of the twentieth century, not least because of his crucial role in the breakthrough of German Expressionism. This long overdue biography combines the portrayal of an outstanding artistic personality with the story of an individual German who struggled through the political upheavals of his time. Pechstein's work is presented in the cultural context of museum politics and art associations, art dealers and critics, market forces and cultural trends.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Author: Ernst Ludwig KirchnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880-1938
Author: Norbert WolfPublisher: Taschen
ISBN: 9783822821237
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
An introduction to the German Expressionist painter, graphic artist and sculptor who, at the turn of the 19th century, was Germany's most influential artist.
Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy
Author: Adam BisnoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100902759X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Explains why the liberalism of a group of elites, the owners of Berlin's grand hotels, gave way to a more aggressive nationalism and conservatism after World War I – a shift which contributed directly to Hitler's rise to power. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Author: Katharina BeisiegelPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) is one of the best-known painters and sculptors of German Expressionism. As co-founder of the artists' group the Brücke at the beginning of the twentieth century, he is also one of the most important artists of the avant-garde. His life and work were deeply shaped by his search for the 'exotic' and 'primordial', for foreign lands and cultures. What resulted were brilliantly colourful, imaginative artworks in which he create foreign worlds. This book traces the stages of Kirchner's life and artistic development. It illustrates how, by synthesising a great variety of influences from non-European cultures, the artists achieved an intermingling of art, life and work that manifested itself as 'exotic' Gesamtkunstwerk not only in his work but also in his live-in studios.
Author: Lisa Srejovic