"No one else has these colors"
Subtitle: Kirchner's painting
By: edited by Karin Schick and Heide Skowranek
Contributors: Schick, Karin; Skowranek, Heide, 1973-; Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Museum
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ostfildern, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9783775731379
Subjects: Color in art; Exhibitions; German Painting
Other titles: Kirchner's painting
Description: "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) dazzled prewar Germany with his electrifying color palette and impassioned, jagged brushwork. Kirchner depicted Berlin and the majestic mountainscapes of Davos with an intensity never before seen in German art, and when we think of his paintings it is this sense of expressive force that first comes to mind (after all, Kirchner's Die Brücke group made their name with the declaration that they would express "what urges them to create, directly and without adulteration"). It is perhaps for this reason that Kirchner is more rarely considered as the careful technician he was. Kirchner's Paintings: No One Else Has These Colors provides the first treatment of the artist's working process, his methods and techniques, with evaluations of his comments on color schemes and painting techniques and scientific analyses of individual works."--Publisher description.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Kirchner Museum, Davos, Switzerland, 4 Dec. 2011-15 April 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-189).
Table of contents: title: "Shaping life like a painting" : Kirchner's creative process and studio practice / Heide Skowranek; title: In focus: Kirchner's binding media and color effects / Patrick Dietemann and Ursula Baumer; title: In focus: Kirchner's pigments / Heike Stege and Christoph Krekel; title: In focus: Kirchner's original frames / Heide Skowranek; title: Color in black and white: Kirchner's compositions / Karin Schick; title: In focus: the "light value" of color / Heide Skowranek and Christoph Krekel; title: "Don't you know that genius requires no theory" : Kirchner and color theory / Christoph Krekel and Heide Skowranek; title: In focus: the fundamentals of color theory / Christoph Krekel; title: Thirteen paintings from three decades / Karin Schick and Heide Skowranek.