Ernst Ludwig Kirchner : imaginary travels / Katharina Beisiegel (Ed.).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig, 1880-1938, artist.

Beisiegel, Katharina, author.

Strzoda, Hanna, author.

Weikop, Christian, author.

Dolz, Silvia, author.

Grisebach, Lucius, author.

Henze, Wolfgang, 1944- author.

Lloyd, Jill, author.

Röske, Thomas, author.

Nommsen, Martina, 1986- author.

Contributor:

Beisiegel, Katharina, curator, editor.

Sadowsky, Thorsten, curator, author.

Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, issuing body, organizer, host institution.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Museum.

Art Centre Basel, organizer.

Prestel Verlag, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig, 1880-1938--Exhibitions.

Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig.

Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig, 1880-1938--Criticism and interpretation.

Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig, 1880-1938--Themes, motives.

Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig, 1880-1938.

Brücke (Artists' group)--Exhibitions.

Brücke (Artists' group).

Expressionism (Art)--Germany--20th century--Exhibitions.

Expressionism (Art).

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Germany--20th century--Exhibitions.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Nude in art--Exhibitions.

Nude in art.

Male artists--Germany--20th century--Exhibitions.

Male artists.

Themes, motives.

Criticism and interpretation.

Germany.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Essays.

Illustrated works.

Portraits.

Physical Description:

367 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits, photographs ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

Munich, Germany ; London, England ; New York, New York : Prestel, [2018]

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

Throughout Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's career, one unifying theme emerges - the search for what he saw as unadulterated and primal. This volume explores the far-reaching influence of non-western art on Kirchner's oeuvre and the importance of his life in Davos, Switzerland, where he found a temporary peace despite the impending threat of censorship by the Nazis. Throughout the chapters of this book are reproductions of Kirchner's paintings as well as his sculptures, woodcuts, sketches, drawings, textiles, carvings, and furniture. Archival material in the form of letters and diary entries offer an unprecedented look into the artist's creative process. This study of one of the most talented and influential German Expressionist painters draws compelling conclusions about the influence of the imaginary on his work.

"Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) is one of the best-known painters and sculptors of German Expressionism. As co-founder of the artists' group the Brücke at the beginning of the twentieth century, he is also one of the most important artists of the avant-garde. His life and work were deeply shaped by his search for the 'exotic' and 'primordial', for foreign lands and cultures. What resulted were brilliantly colourful, imaginative artworks in which he create foreign worlds. This book traces the stages of Kirchner's life and artistic development. It illustrates how, by synthesising a great variety of influences from non-European cultures, the artists achieved an intermingling of art, life and work that manifested itself as 'exotic' Gesamtkunstwerk not only in his work but also in his live-in studios." --publisher's description, lower cover.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Foreword / Suzanne Greub

Foreword / Rein Wolfs

Journey around the studio : in black and white and instead of a foreword / Thorsten Sadowsky

Escapism and fantasy worlds : Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's imaginary travels / Katharina Beisiegel

Imaginary 'exoticism' : Kirchner's studio enclaves in Dresden and Berlin / Hanna Strzoda

Avatars and atavism : Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's encounters with Africa / Christian Weikop

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's encounters with the foreign / Silvia Dolz

Bed for Erna / Lucius Grisebach

The birth of expressionism from the spirit of sculpture : Kirchner's imaginary sculptural travels / Wolfgang Henze

Idealism or reality? : Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's photographs / Jill Lloyd

"The reshaping of one's own life" : Kirchner's period of crisis and its images / Thomas Röske

Entirely Kirchner? : Lise Gujer, textile work, and the 'new style' / Martina Nommsen

Flatland : the late work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner / Thorsten Sadowsky

Biography. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938)

List of exhibited works

Bibliography

Photo credits.

Notes:

Catalog from an exhibition held November 16, 2018-March 3, 2019 at Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn. Curated by Katharina Beisiegel (Art Centre Basel) in collaboration with the Kirchner Museum Davos and with Thorsten Sadowsky and organised by Art Centre Basel in collaboration with the Bundeskunsthalle. The Kirchner Museum Davos is the primary lender to this exhibition.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Imaginary Travels" : November 16, 2018-March 3, 2019, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany.

ISBN:

3791357565

9783791357560

OCLC:

1022198333