Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Subtitle: 1880-1938 - On the Edge of the Abyss of Time
Series: Basic Art Series
Publisher: Taschen GmbH; TASCHEN
Published: May 19, 2003
Place of publication: Köln, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9783822821237
Subjects: Expressionism; Individual artists; Individual Artist; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Art; Art & Art Instruction; European; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
First sentence: "Now it's Heckeling and Kirchnering from every wall, complained an art critic in 1920 in view of the inflation of Expressionist art, which had become the cultural trademark of the Weimar Republic after the first World War."
Description: A short monograph of the German expressionist painter Kirchner. Richly illustrated in color.
Table of contents: title: "What urges them to create"
pagenum: 6; title: A "plea for unrestraint"
pagenum: 20; title: "Dance on the volcano"
pagenum: 42; title: "Berlin, you dance with Death"
pagenum: 66; title: "Outsider here, outsider there"
pagenum: 76; title: Cronology
pagenum: 92