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  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
    May 6, 1880 - Jun 15, 1938
  • Two Women in the Street - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th century art. He volunteered for army service in the First World War, but soon suffered a breakdown and was discharged. In 1933, his work was branded as "degenerate" by the Nazis and in 1937 over 600 of his works were sold or destroyed. In 1938 he committed suicide.
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  • 1914
    Oil on canvas
    120.5 x 91 cm
    Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany.

    German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is known for his intense and powerful artwork. He created paintings and prints taking inspiration from his emotional perspective of the world. In 1905, he founded Die Brücke, a group of like-minded artists dedicated to creating art free from traditional boundaries. Two Women In The Street is a piece from 1914 that reflects the group’s style of painting. This artwork utilizes intense colors and dynamic brushwork to capture the emotion in an abstract setting.

    Two Women In The Street displays two women walking side by side with their backs turned to the viewer. Their clothing is bright, contrasting against the muted background and lending movement to the painting. The motion continues across the figures and overlaps them, reflecting their relatedness in this particular scene. Kirchner expertly draws on symbolism as we are able to observe these women at a single moment in time yet sense a deep narrative lying beneath them.

    Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s artwork challenges viewers to experience emotion in abstract form while interpreting its meaning through personal interpretation. His iconic work also serves as a reminder of German expressionism and of his place amongst many influential German creators who shaped modern-day art history.

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Other paintings by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner:

Street, Berlin
Street, Berlin
Kummeralp Mountain and Two Sheds
Kummeralp Mountain and Two Sheds
Frauen auf der Strasse
Frauen auf der Strasse
Potsdamer Platz
Potsdamer Platz
Ernst Ludwig KirchnerErnst Ludwig Kirchner was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany. Originally a student of architecture, Kirchner first became interested in fine arts during a visit to Nuremberg. The traditional German engravings he saw there served as the inspiration for his earliest efforts in the field of etching. When he began to paint he was influenced by Neo-Impressionism but, by 1904, the influence of the Norwegian Expressionist Edvard Munch and of African and oriental art helped him to simplify his use of form and color into large flat washes. The dominant member of Die Brücke, Kirchner worked with his friends in Dresden, graduated from architectural school in 1907, and then, with the members of Die Brücke, went to Berlin. It was there, between 1911 and 1914, that he painted his most famous works, portraying the eerie, worldly, and artificial life that was then typical of Berlin. He painted portraits and street scenes, locking his people in a web of rhythmic lines, distorting their forms and features into what he called "hieroglyphics," tinting them with unreal colors, and abstracting them from a reality that seems just beyond the reach of the known, and therefore haunting and hallucinatory.

While serving in the German Army, in 1916, Kirchner fell seriously ill and, in 1917, he left Germany for Switzerland, where he remained, constantly fighting against ailments, until his suicide in 1938 at Davos. The change of environment prompted a shift in the subject matter of his paintings, and the mountain landscapes and peasants of his later works are expressive of the link between man and nature. Late in the 1920's, he was much influenced by Picasso, and his work closely approached that of the Spanish artist during those years. However, his symbolic landscapes, often allegorical and even monumental in their symbolism, are more truly his own. Kirchner was also a sculptor and graphic artist, exceptionally talented in the making of woodcuts, and as forceful in black and white as in his vividly colored oil paintings.