The man travelled, he dreamed of the world: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner paintings, sculptures and graphics to celebrate the Exotic foreign cultures, such a great Show in Bonn. Title: “Dream Travel”.
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Bonn shows “the other” Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
The Mandolinistin 1921
His Mandolinistin with the purple legs malte Kirchner in the year 1921 in the Swiss Davos. Four years earlier, he had gone into the mountains, where he hoped to cure his diseases and to wider recognition of his art. The latter, he helped with a Trick that was revealed only years later: Under the Pseudonym Louis de Mars all he wrote favourable criticisms on his works.
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Bonn shows “the other” Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Alpleben 1917-1919
The painting “Alpleben” was built in the years 1917 to 1919 and is part of a triptych. During the formation of the three-part work, Kirchner moved to Switzerland, in the bones of the late consequences of the First world war to which he reported as a Volunteer, whose horrors he was not equal to mentally but. Now he was fond of the beauty of the mountain world.
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Bonn shows “the other” Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Bathing Women 1915/1925
From the beauty of naked women, this agent is the image of a triptych. It was about the long period between 1915 and 1925. Just before he started, broke out the First world war. Kirchner volunteered for service. But after a few months of failed his nerves. Kirchner was on leave. In this time he painted a gloomy self-portraits and bathing women.
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Bonn shows “the other” Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Balcony scene in 1935
This “balcony scene” takes place in the Swiss mountains. In the mid-1930s, as the picture was taken, was Kirchner’s style of painting has become increasingly flat. Now, he developed a personal, always representational, but highly abstract style. The “balcony scene” is already one of Kirchner’s late works. 15. In June 1938, he continued his life with a shot to the head.
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Bonn shows “the other” Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Act with an African stool, 1912
As Kirchner signed this act, he spent the summer on the island of Fehmarn and many seaside painted pictures. The stool refers to the devotion of the artist to the Imaginary. Instead of travelling himself, strolled Kirchner by ethnological museums and intoxicated to the testimonies of foreign cultures.
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Bonn shows “the other” Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Acrobats pair of 1932-1933
Time he molded it to the plastic, signed, or he painted it many times, Kirchner has varied his motive was in breakneck dislocation motionless Acrobats. The Version of 1932/33 uses a modern, almost art Nouveau-esque design language. Shortly thereafter, the Nazis, Kirchner’s works banned as “degenerate”. Since the artist was already living in Switzerland.
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Bonn shows “the other” Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Three Nudes in the forest 1933
With the motive of spontaneous, unposed physicality operated Kirchner is a widespread yearning of his paying audience. The required to the romantic image of the Artist in the 19th century. Century, the rush and the sense of joy showed, at the same time, but the colours are as technically should be free – and all from the easel of a German.
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Bonn shows “the other” Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Self-portrait 1913-1915
Who was Ernst Ludwig Kirchner? Certainly a man possessed of the signatories, the co-founded in 1905 in Dresden, the artists group the bridge, in the Studio and at the Moritzburg lakes images of liberated physicality captured, dipped in 1911, in the Moloch of Berlin, with its street scenes icons of the 20th century. Century created. But probably also a society of artists, the nachhalf the success occasionally.
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Bonn shows “the other” Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
The Mandolinistin 1921
His Mandolinistin with the purple legs malte Kirchner in the year 1921 in the Swiss Davos. Four years earlier, he had gone into the mountains, where he hoped to cure his diseases and to wider recognition of his art. The latter, he helped with a Trick that was revealed only years later: Under the Pseudonym Louis de Mars all he wrote favourable criticisms on his works.
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Bonn shows “the other” Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Alpleben 1917-1919
The painting “Alpleben” was built in the years 1917 to 1919 and is part of a triptych. During the formation of the three-part work, Kirchner moved to Switzerland, in the bones of the late consequences of the First world war to which he reported as a Volunteer, whose horrors he was not equal to mentally but. Now he was fond of the beauty of the mountain world.
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Bonn shows “the other” Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Bathing Women 1915/1925
From the beauty of naked women, this agent is the image of a triptych. It was about the long period between 1915 and 1925. Just before he started, broke out the First world war. Kirchner volunteered for service. But after a few months of failed his nerves. Kirchner was on leave. In this time he painted a gloomy self-portraits and bathing women.
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Bonn shows “the other” Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Balcony scene in 1935
This “balcony scene” takes place in the Swiss mountains. In the mid-1930s, as the picture was taken, was Kirchner’s style of painting has become increasingly flat. Now, he developed a personal, always representational, but highly abstract style. The “balcony scene” is already one of Kirchner’s late works. 15. In June 1938, he continued his life with a shot to the head.
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Bonn shows “the other” Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Act with an African stool, 1912
As Kirchner signed this act, he spent the summer on the island of Fehmarn and many seaside painted pictures. The stool refers to the devotion of the artist to the Imaginary. Instead of travelling himself, strolled Kirchner by ethnological museums and intoxicated to the testimonies of foreign cultures.
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Bonn shows “the other” Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Acrobats pair of 1932-1933
Time he molded it to the plastic, signed, or he painted it many times, Kirchner has varied his motive was in breakneck dislocation motionless Acrobats. The Version of 1932/33 uses a modern, almost art Nouveau-esque design language. Shortly thereafter, the Nazis, Kirchner’s works banned as “degenerate”. Since the artist was already living in Switzerland.
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Bonn shows “the other” Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Three Nudes in the forest 1933
With the motive of spontaneous, unposed physicality operated Kirchner is a widespread yearning of his paying audience. The required to the romantic image of the Artist in the 19th century. Century, the rush and the sense of joy showed, at the same time, but the colours are as technically should be free – and all from the easel of a German.
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Bonn shows “the other” Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Self-portrait 1913-1915
Who was Ernst Ludwig Kirchner? Certainly a man possessed of the signatories, the co-founded in 1905 in Dresden, the artists group the bridge, in the Studio and at the Moritzburg lakes images of liberated physicality captured, dipped in 1911, in the Moloch of Berlin, with its street scenes icons of the 20th century. Century created. But probably also a society of artists, the nachhalf the success occasionally.
The exhibition in the Federal art and exhibition hall has gathered about 220 works by Kirchner (1880-1938), paintings and graphics as well as sculptures and photographs. Kirchner co-founded in 1905, the Dresden artist group “Brücke”. The Nazis ostracized his art as “degenerate”. Today, Kirchner is considered one of the most important German expressionists.
The Bulk of the in Bonn, the works displayed comes from the Kirchner Museum in Davos, Switzerland. There, Kirchner has spent 20 years of his life. Here is his long verschmähtes was late for work, embedded in a grandiose Swiss mountain world. Here, the artist in 1938 ended his life with a shot to the head.
Color joy
The Show traces Kirchner to Create on the basis of important life stages. Thus, it is visible, what kept him busy – the women (in Dresden), the city (in Berlin) and the nature (in Davos). At best, the Berlin stage, with its famous views of the city comes a little short.
Kirchner’s paintings are beautiful to look at, because they are bursting with color and joy. But that’s not enough. The wall-sized triptych “the bathers” at the entrance to occupied Kirchner’s artistic intent: The dance of naked women, reflects his search for the Natural and Spontaneous.
The Strange as the aesthetic occasion
Kirchner’s late work is a homage to the Swiss mountain world
But also the Exotic runs like a red thread through Kirchner’s work: the dark-skinned man, an African stool, then back to a drawing after a bas relief bronze from Benin. “Kirchner traveled,” says curator Thomas Sadowsky, “he was a theoretical journey.” While traveling I listened to the self-image of the modern artist. But Kirchner strolled through ethnological museums and visited the peoples view. So he met the Stranger, and took this as Sadowsky says, “the aesthetic event”. More than in Switzerland or the island of Fehmarn, however, he did not.
With paintings, sketchbooks and sculptures, the Bonn exhibition pays homage to, finally, the inking Kirchner’s dripping late. It delights in the nature of the mountain world of the beauties as well as the Alpine Swiss folk culture. The artist proposes in this Phase, new ways of trying to make it in a flat painting, the bond with fellow artists such as Picasso. And he writes how it was only much later it became known, under the Pseudonym of an imaginary critic, a benevolent criticisms about his art. “We would like to show the other Kirchner,” says the Co-curator Katharina Beisiegel from the Art Centre Basel. An exciting look at the expressionists, the Bonn Show allows from all.