Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), the subject of the MoMA exhibition “Kirchner and the Berlin Street,” is, in the greater scheme of 20th-century art, a minor painter, albeit one with a significant role in the shaping of German Modernism.
Kirchner was a founding member of “Die Brücke” (“the Bridge”), a collective of painters out to Read More
New York is awash in Expressionism. Glitter and Doom, a grim parade of Weimar-era portraits, was at the Met earlier this year. From Berlin to Broadway, a collection of modern German and Austrian works on paper bequeathed by Cabaret lyricist Fred Ebb, is currently at the Morgan Library. Now, following its show devoted to Van Read More
The group of young Germans who, in 1905, proudly called themselves Die Brücke (“The Bridge”) derived their name from Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra, one of the radical philosophical tracts of the period. (The key passage reads: “What is great about a man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.”) Die Brücke was Read More
