This piece stood out from the others for me because while the others seemed very tortured and emotional this one seemed almost peaceful and pleasant. I do like the very strained emotional side of the other paintings but this one popped out because of how it contrasted with the others. I like the use of colors, especially the pink trees and I really like how he did the clouds. Mr. Ganes is my quest mentor and we were talking about doing a big painting. One idea was to do something similar to my last piece for STAC art another idea was to do an painting in the style of Kirchner. I don't know if I am going to do that yet but I decided to look more into this painter.When I did more research I found my response to Kirchner's painting funny because it seems the rest of his work is really sad and extremely emotional.
Eberhard Grisebach said about Kirchner that he, " made short explanatory remarks in a weary voice. Each picture had its own particular colourful character, a great sadness was present in all of them; what I had previously found to be incomprehensible and unfinished now created the same delicate and sensitive impression as his personality. Everywhere a search for style, for psychological understanding of his figures."
The National Socialist German Workers' Party declared Kirchner as a "degenerate" artist. In 1937 a total of 639 works of his were taken out of museums. I find that number mind blowing. To make all that art and for it to be taken away sold or destroyed is such a great tragedy. My heart sinks thinking about it. It makes me want to make a ton of art. Kirchner was expelled as a member from the Academy of Arts. Kirchner was very upset with the events happening in Germany at that time. As an artist and a German having all of that going on would have been very overwhelming.
Sadly on June 15th, 1938 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner took a gun and shot himself in the chest, taking his own life.
The winter landscape painting is ravishingly gorgeous. I've not seen it before. What a masterpiece.
ReplyDeleteIn the Summer of 2014 there was a roving tour of Kirchner's works, in St. Petersburg, then in Genoa, did you see it ? Much of the works are not posted on the net. It covered Kirchner's days after the Bridges broke up, and after Kirchner left Berlin, after WW1.
ReplyDeleteIn the Summer of 2014 there was a roving tour of Kirchner's works, in St. Petersburg, then in Genoa, did you see it ? Much of the works are not posted on the net. It covered Kirchner's days after the Bridges broke up, and after Kirchner left Berlin, after WW1.
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