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| portrait as a soldier - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1915) |
When Kirchner made his "Self-portrait as a soldier" is currently the First World War . Consider this event may be sufficient as a fundamental starting point for a reflection on the work in question and the path of the artist in general.
Kirchner pours into the canvas anxiety and existential drama own man modern, is to assist the horrors of war. He himself is in the conflict in 1915 and just falls victim to a nervous breakdown. Unable to bear the weight of a tragedy so rending.
And there will indeed be a bridge (Brücke) that will lead to a better reality? You can return to a primordial state of purity? (There are many references to art and primitive African) Or everything - and the first man - has changed forever?
The artist will not release other than in extreme act of suicide.
Kirchner pours into the canvas anxiety and existential drama own man modern, is to assist the horrors of war. He himself is in the conflict in 1915 and just falls victim to a nervous breakdown. Unable to bear the weight of a tragedy so rending.
And there will indeed be a bridge (Brücke) that will lead to a better reality? You can return to a primordial state of purity? (There are many references to art and primitive African) Or everything - and the first man - has changed forever?
The artist will not release other than in extreme act of suicide.
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