Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge."
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- A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
- My paintings are allegories not portraits.
- The German artist creates out of his imagination,inner vision,the forms of visible nature are to him only a symbol.
- The way in which I depict people was now influenced very strongly by my third wife..and her sister.The beautiful,shapely architectonically structured bodies of those two girls,replaced the soft Saxon bodies.