Features & Benefits
- Kirchner sent seismic waves through the art world with his hard-edged, intensely colored paintings.
- He cofounded the Die Brücke art movement and the MUIM-Institut school of modernist painting.
- His work reconciled past and present through an Expressionist prism and explored traditional academic approaches and subjects.
- Kirchner's works tackled social, moral, and emotional questions with a fierce intensity.
- Distorted perspectives, rough lines, and unusual colors were mainstays of his practice.
- This book provides an introductory exploration of Kirchner's career, including his founding of Die Brücke and his inclusion in the degenerate art exhibition.