Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

…In 1905, the Brücke group was founded in Dresden by Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Kirchner, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff; later, Cuno Amiet, Otto Müller, Emil Nolde, and Max Pechstein joined the group. From 1905 to 1910, Dresden hosted exhibitions of Post-Impressionism [more], including the work of Vincent van Gogh, as well as shows featuring Gustav Klimt, Edvard Munch, and the Fauves, which deeply impressed Kirchner. Other important influences were Japanese prints and African and Oceanic art. Kirchner moved to Berlin with the Brucke group in 1911…

Gemeinsam mit den Studienkollegen Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff und Fritz Bleyl gründete Kirchner im Juni 1905 die Künstlergruppe „Brücke“ und widmete sich fortan Malerei, Zeichnung und Druckgraphik…

Kirchner Museum

Works in the MOMA collection

59 Works online, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Kirchner’s output of paintings, drawings and prints from mid-September to mid-December 1915 in Berlin, was remarkable, despite the physical and mental breakdown which had given him a provisional discharge from the German army. The most striking of the prints were colour woodcuts, including two portraits of his close friend Otto Müller (1874-1930), another painter and printmaker whom he first met in Berlin in 1910.