商品簡介
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) was one of the most important and colorful artistic personalities of the twentieth century, an icon of German Expressionism. To mark the one hundredth anniversary of "Kirchner in Davos," Thorsten Sadowsky presents here a compact artist monograph with rare archival material from throughout Kirchners career. Touching on Kirchners myriad struggles, works, and milestones―from the radicalism of the artists association "Die Brücke" (The Bridge), which Kirchner cofounded, and the restless expressiveness of his Berlin and Davos years, to his struggles with mental instability and anxiety, and the reviews of his own works he published under the pseudonym Louis de Marsalle―Sadowsky lucidly retraces the artists turbulent trajectory. This erudite monograph shows how Kirchner, though vacillating between self-doubt and egocentricity, created an incomparably
作者簡介
Thorsten Sadowsky is director of the Kirchner Museum in Davos, Switzerland.
