Ernst Ludwig Kirchner und die Brucke : Selbstbildnisse - Kunstlerbildnisse

Mit einem Vorwort von Thomas Kellein. 17 x 24 cm. 192 S. mit 123 farb. Abb. Biografien. Fester Einband. Text in deutscher Sprache. . ISBN 9783938025573. . In June 1905, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff founded an association of artists known as the Brucke. Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, and Otto Mueller were also members for a time. Over the eight years? of their intense collective work, until the group broke up in 1913, the Brucke (Bridge) became the quintessence of German Expressionism. The 100th anniversary of the founding of the Brucke is the perfect occasion for the publication to literally put the protagonists into the picture. The theme of the over eighty paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints taken from German and international collections is the artist?s view of himself and his friends. Of special significance is the group of self-portraits by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, which have not played much of a role in previous examinations of his oeuvre. More than 120 coloured reproductions of the works are supplemented by texts on Kirchner's portrait techniques and on the background of the artists group.