Lot 74

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880 - 1938) IN EINER BAR

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner belonged to the expressionist generation of German painters, he was one of the four founders of the group Die Brücke. World War II was a heavy desilusion to his work - his work was declared a perverted art. The exhibition in 1937 exhibited over 5,000 works by modern artists, including, in addition to Kirchner, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. Degenerate art has been officially banned, denigrated and liquidated. Of the works of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 639 were sold or destroyed by the nazi government. The author committed suicide a year later. In his work, the effort to free oneself and paint is always and under all circumstances evident. He was constantly looking for new expressions and techniques and did not hire professionals as models, but to draw and paint real people from the street.