Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Edited by Jill Lloyd and Janis Staggs With preface by Ronald S. Lauder, foreword by Renée Price, and contributions by Nelson Blitz, Jr., Sharon Jordan, Jill Lloyd, Sherwin Simmons, and Janis Staggs Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is arguably the most outstanding German Expressionist artist of the early twentieth century. This publication and its related exhibition pay tribute to Kirchner’s inventive genius with a focus on his highly individual approach to color, which he viewed as the fundamental building block to his paintings. Yet Kirchner was a multi-talented figure and his work encompassed various media – painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, and even the decorative arts. Rather than accepting the traditional hierarchy that placed fine art solely at the pinnacle of an artist’s achievement, Kirchner compared his activity in these various fields to “a tightly woven, organic fabric, in which process and completion go hand in hand and one aspect drives the other on.” Beginning with his Dresden years as a founding member of the artists’ group Brücke, and moving on to the periods he spent in the Berlin metropolis and in the Swiss mountainside resort of Davos, this survey provides a representative overview of Kirchner’s three main phases and charts the transformation in his life’s output. The essays touch on important topics related to his entire career. Jill Lloyd provides an overview and examines how color and technique were crucial, evolving elements throughout his work. Janis Staggs offers new insights into Kirchner’s decorative projects, paying particular attention to his little-known metalwork and its close connection with his work in other media. Sherwin Simmons confronts Kirchner's modernity by relating the color compositions in his Berlin street scenes to the impact of electric light. Sharon Jordan analyzes Kirchner’s colored woodcut series “Peter Schlemihl’s Wondrous Story” in relation to his long-abiding interest in the works of Friedrich Nietzsche. And Nelson Blitz, Jr., provides an original interpretation of Kirchner’s breakdown and suicide by situating the artist’s personal story in its historical and political context. Hardcover262 pages80 color illustrations | 100 b/w illustrations23.5 x 28.5 cmPrestel, 2019ISBN 9783791359342Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Art History, Essays

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Exhibition Catalogue

Original Price: $40.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Pamela Kort 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. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Hardcover92 pagesNeue Galerie New York, 20080.6 x 9.1 x 11.3 inchesISBN 9781931794152Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Painting, German History, Urban Studies

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Berlin Street Scene

Original Price: $18.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), Berlin Street Scene, 1913-14 Poster for the exhibition, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (2019-2020). 16 x 24 inches

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Exhibition Poster

By Anders Ehlers Dam, Uwe Fleckner, Anne Gregersen, Jill Lloyd, Carsten Thau.Kirchner’s late work in dialogue with a little-known Danish fellow expressionistIn exile in Davos, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), cofounder of the Die Brücke group, managed to produce a stunning cycle of pictures before committing suicide at the age of 58. Nature, specifically the breathtaking mountains of the region, appears as an intoxicating space in intense colors where the dignity of the human figure is negotiated in a dynamic aesthetic.This colorful volume is the first to allot critical appraisal of one of the most important chapters in Kirchner’s imposing later work. Kirchner’s bright fiery compositions are here placed in conjunction with another expressionist living in self-imposed exile during the same years: Danish painter J.F. Willumsen (1863–1958). The juxtaposition of Kirchner and Willumsen poses a visually persuasive and entirely new perspective on an intense, colorful and vital vision of painting from the 1910s–1930s.Paperback208 pagesHatje Cantz, 20209.7 x 10.7 inchesISBN 9783775746731Artist Monographs, Die Brücke, Expressionism

Staging Nature and Life: The Late Works of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Jens Ferdinand Willumsen

By Norbert Wolf 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, intensely colored paintings and disseminated his ideas through Die Brücke art movement and the MUIM-Institut school of modernist painting, both of which he cofounded. Kirchner’s work reconciled past and present through an Expressionist prism, reflecting the latest avant-garde ideas in art, while exploring traditional academic approaches and subjects. His works tackled social, moral, and emotional questions with a fierce intensity. Distorted perspectives, rough lines, and unusual colors were mainstays of his practice, as well as a recurring interest in capturing the human form, whether in frenetic city vistas such as Berlin Street Scene (1913) or in his famously decadent studio. In this introductory book, we explore the stretch of Kirchner’s career through Germany and Switzerland, including his founding of Die Brücke, and his inclusion in the Nazis’ infamous “degenerate art” exhibition in 1937. Along the way, we’ll encounter vivid landscapes, stark nudes, intense urban settings, and, above all, a persistent emphasis on the emotional experience of painter and viewer. Hardcover96 pagesTaschen, 20168.4 x 0.5 x 10.3 inchesISBN 9783836535045Artist Monograph, Die Brücke, Expressionism, Painting, Printmaking

Kirchner (Basic Art Series 2.0)

By Sandra Gianfreda Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) was one of the most prolific and creative members of the German expressionist movement. His move from Dresden to Berlin in 1911 marked a turning point in his career and ignited the most important and innovative period of his work. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: The Berlin Years looks in-depth at this significant time during which he produced his most celebrated masterpieces.As Sandra Gianfreda reveals, under the influence of the most modern metropolis in Europe, Kirchner created works whose exaggerated and condensed style could be regarded as a true metaphor for the attitude to life during the early years of the twentieth century. During this time of rapid change, Berlin was not only the center of industry, but it was a metropolis of the arts and encouraged a new kind of hedonism. Berlin vibrated with energy and intellectual questions that Kirchner channeled in his work, creating pictures of breathless, existential directness that challenged conventions of the age. An essential book for fans of Kirchner’s work, it presents his greatest paintings and demonstrates the profound changes in his style that were inspired by his time in Berlin. Hardcover272 pagesHirmer Publishers, 20178.5 x 1.1x 10.5 inchesISBN 9783777427294Artist Monograph, Painting, Cityscape, Expressionism

Vibrant Metropolis / Idyllic Nature: Kirchner — The Berlin Years

Von Magdalena M. Moeller Der Band versammelt Spitzenwerke von Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein und Otto Mueller aus dem reichen Bestand des Brücke-Museums Berlin. Sie werden in einen spannungsreichen Dialog mit den im Oldenburger Land entstandenen Werken der Künstlergruppe gesetzt. Von 1907 bis 1912 kamen Schmidt-Rottluff, Heckel und Pechstein immer wieder ins abgelegene Nordseebad Dangast. Hier vollzogen sie den Wechsel vom pastosen Farbauftrag der frühen Werke zum die Tradition der Raumillusion hinter sich lassenden Flächenstil. Es entstanden einige Hauptwerke des epochemachenden Brücke-Stils. Der Band ist eine Hommage an die faszinierende Geschichte der Brücke im Oldenburger Land. Glanzstücke aus dem Brücke-Museum geben in einem Rausch aus Farben einen Querschnitt durch das Schaffen der Künstlergruppe. Meisterliche, von und nach Dangast gesandte Künstlerpostkarten bilden den spontanen wie intimen Gegenpol zu den großformatigen Hauptwerken. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Hardcover160 pages | 118 illustrationsText in GermanHirmer, 20177.7 x 9.8 inchesISBN 9783777426693Expressionism

Die Welt in Diesen Rauschended Farben

Von Regina Freyberger Kaum ein Material ist mit der Kunst des deutschen Expres­sio­nismus stärker verbunden als Holz. Und nichts ist so sehr »Brücke« wie der Holzschnitt. Im Schaffen der drei »Brücke«-Mitbegründer Kirchner, Heckel und Schmidt-Rottluff nimmt der Holzschnitt eine heraus­ragende Stellung ein. Neben Litho­grafie, Radierung und Kaltnadel war es gerade jenes druck­technische Verfahren, dessen großes experi­men­telles Potenzial die Künstler für sich entdeckten. Sie erneuerten den Holzschnitt nicht nur als künstle­risches Medium, sondern leisteten mit ihm den vielleicht größten Beitrag für die Moderne.Das Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main verfügt mit der Sammlung Carl Hagemanns über einen der bedeu­tend­sten musealen Bestände an »Brücke«-Grafik. Von dieser reichen Sammlung ausgehend und um einige bedeutende Leihgaben ergänzt, spürt der Katalog anhand von rund 100 ausgewähl­ten Holz­schnitten, Druck­stöcken und Skulp­turen den Besonder­heiten der Technik sowie den Wechsel­bezie­hungen zwischen den Medien und dem Material nach. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Paperback269 pages | 209 illustrationsSandstein, 201910.7 x 1.3 x 11.1 inchesISBN 9783954984701Brücke, Expressionism

Geheimnis Der Materie: Kirchner, Heckel, Schmidt-Rottluff

By Rose-Carol Washton Long "An indispensable anthology that immediately renders its predecessors obsolete. With its gathering of public and private documents, it carries us through the rise and fall of one of the great upheavals of modern art." —Robert Rosenblum, New York University"These essays, including many previously unavailable in English, are rich with startling new insights into the German Expressionist psyche. Elucidating the artists' view of government, the role of women in modern society, and their own ambivalence about the effectiveness of abstract art, this anthology is essential reading for all scholars and students of twentieth-century art." —Joan Marter, author of Alexander CalderGerman Expressionism, one of the most significant movements of early European modernism, was an enormously powerful element in Germany's cultural life from the end of the Wilhelmkine Empire to the Third Reich. While the movement embraced such diverse artists as E. L. Kirchner, Wassily Kandinsky, Käthe Kollwitz, and George Grosz, all the participants shared an almost messianic belief in the power of art to change society. Rose-Carol Washton Long has drawn together over eighty documents crucial to the understanding of German Expressionism, many of them translated for the first time into English. Rose-Carol Washton Long is Professor of Art History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Among her books is Kandinsky: The Development of an Abstract Style. Paperback 370 pagesUniversity of California Press, 19955.9 x 1 x 8.9 inchesISBN 9780520202641Art History, Expressionism

German Expressionism: Documents from the End of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Rise of National Socialism

Edited by Shane Weller Over 100 works by Beckmann, Feininger, Kirchner, Kollwitz, Nolde, Marc, and others. Their distorted, stylized forms embody the revolutionary mood of the early 20th-century. Paperback128 pagesDover Publications, 19948.2 x 0.4 x 10.9 inchesISBN 9780486280691Expressionism, Woodcuts

German Expressionist Woodcuts

Original Price: $70 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Edited by Matthias Frehner and Daniel Spanke Kunstmuseum Bern, the oldest museum in Switzerland, turns its gaze toward its own acquisition history in this lavish book that features artistic masterpieces considered worthless by the Nazis, and the stories of how they came to Switzerland. As a result of the Nazi regime’s scorn for modern art, virtually all non-traditional art between 1933 and 1945 was banned in Germany on the grounds that it was un-German, Jewish, or Communist in nature. Those identified as “degenerate” artists were dismissed from teaching positions and forbidden to exhibit or to sell their works. This book sheds light on the historical significance and provenance of nearly 525 works by modernist greats, such as Picasso, Chagall, and Kandinsky, which were acquired by the Kunstmuseum Bern through a combination of auctions and private donations. The book traces the fates of artists who suffered under the Nazi regime and who had connections to Switzerland, including Kirchner, Klee and Dix, and contrasts the cultural policies of the Third Reich with those of Switzerland in the same period. Finally, it details the dramatic events and unprecedented efforts that went into preserving invaluable works of art. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Hardcover376 pagesPrestel, 20169.2 x 1.4 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9783791355368Art History, Museum Studies

Modern Masters: "Degenerate" Art at the Kunstmuseum Bern

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)Tightrope Walk, 1908-101 notecard and envelope4 ¼ x 6 inches

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Tightrope Walk, 1908-10 [Single Card]

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) Berlin Street Scene, 1913-14

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Berlin Street Scene [Postcard]

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) The Russian Dancer Mela (Die Russische Tänzerin Mela), 1911

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: The Russian Dancer Mela [Postcard]

Foreword by Wolf Eiermann and Lisa Felicitas MattheisText by Lisa Felicitas Mattheis, Kristina Jaspers, Marek ZydowiczHow expressionism crossed genres in pursuit of the total artwork, from Nolde to MurnauAs a revolutionary cultural movement, Expressionism endeavored to join art and life and diminish the separation between the arts. The Gesamtkunstwerk—the total artwork—became the ideal for artists. Expressionism in Art and Film traces this crossing of genre boundaries, outlining mutual influences between painting, graphics and film. Exaggerated figures, strong contrast and distorted perspective pervaded all three mediums, reflecting the tremendous angst of the early 20th century’s social upheavals. Social critique also figured centrally in the movement, in caricatured depictions of modern men and women. This volume highlights these elements of Expressionism, drawing parallels between art and film. Artists Erich Heckel, Emil Nolde, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Alexander Kanoldt, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Otto Mueller figure here, as well as directors Robert Wiene, F.W. Murnau and Ernst Lubitsch.Hardcover240 pages | 130 color imagesText in English and GermanSilvana Editoriale, 20229.5 x 1 x 11 inchesISBN 9788836650361Expressionism, Art and Film

Expressionism in Art and Film

By Freyda SpiraThe Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863–1944) and the German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) are considered modernist visionaries. They were also pioneering printmakers, eschewing the mastery of one technique for experimentation across many. Born a generation apart, they worked in an expressionist mode, in which they did not simply replicate what they saw but rather filtered everything through their own imagination and memories. Exploiting the perceptual and emotional power of color and abstraction for creative expression, they portrayed what they perceived to be a fragmented, harrowing reality; both artists endured bouts of anxiety and depression, battled substance abuse, and received psychiatric care. Featuring never-before-published prints from the collection of Nelson Blitz, Jr., and Catherine Woodard, as well as etchings, lithographs, and hand-colored woodcuts from select public and private collections across the United States, this volume puts these two giants of Expressionism in a dialogue that foregrounds issues of mental health and offers a fresh approach that blends art history and the history of medical treatment. The included essays examine the artistic affinities and divergences in their printmaking and the ways in which they used shadows to imagine pathologized psychological and psychiatric experiences in their art.Paperback with flaps192 pages | 99 color imagesYale University Press, 20249 x 12 inchesISBN 9780300275858 Art History, Essays

Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)Berlin Street Scene, 1913-141 notecard and envelope5.75 x 8.75 inches

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Exhibition Notecard [Large Single Card]

Von Ulrich Luckhardt Wie schlagen sich Kirchners Lebensstationen, geographische Veränderungen und neue Motivgruppen in seinem Werk nieder? Der reich bebilderte Band veranschaulicht den engen Zusammenhang von Orts- und Themenwechsel in seinem Oeuvre: Dresden als Impuls der Freiheit für die künstlerische Entwicklung des jungen Kirchner und Berlin als Inspiration für seine berühmten Straßenszenen, Fehmarn als Idylle einer Sehnsucht nach Einheit von Mensch und Natur, der erste Weltkrieg als Phase von Krise und Sanatoriumsaufenthalten und schließlich Davos als neue Lebenswelt. Hardcover176 pagesText in GermanHirmer Verlag, 20248.31 x 0.91 x 10.71 inches ISBN 9783777441986Monographs

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