Kirchner in his artist quotes on painting art & artistic life - free resource, German art history

Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner in quotes - theGerman artist on his painting art, Die Brücke artist-group & his life in Berlin and later in Switzerland - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in German art history

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Kirchner’s artist quotes describe his early artistic years in Germany; he was then a leading figure of the Expressionist group Die Brücke / Bridge - first in Dresden, later in Berlin. His quotes refer partly to his hectic city-life in sketches. In 1914 he became medic in the army - World War 1., but soon he collapsed mentally, in 1915.

This was a definite break with his German years in Berlin with drugs, cocotes and dynamic city-life. It was after 1918 that he started to recover in Switzerland. ‘The high mountains here will help me’, Kirchner wrote. Here in the Swiss landscapes he found peace and inspiration for his later art, working and living in Switzerland with his German wife Erna, untill his sudden suicide, because of the threath of Nazism from Germany.
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Some selected artist-quotes of German artist Kirchner - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’Completely strange faces pop up as interesting points through the crowd. I am carried along with the current, lacking will (crowds, in Dresden).’ - Kirchner’s quote, from his letter to Heckel, c. 1909

• ’to study the nude, the foundation of all pictorial art, in total freedom and naturalness. From… …this basis there emerged the feeling, shared by all, of taking creative stimulus from life itself’ - quote of Kirchner in: ‘Chronik KG Brücke’, Germany 1913

• ’It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.’ - quote in his letter to Karl Ernst Osthaus, Dec. 1917

• ’Art gives us an inner superiority, for it has scope for every sensation… …and first and foremost for love, which is the basis for knowledge. The artist loves without wanting to possess…’ - quote in his letter from Switzerland to Nele van de Velde, nov. 1920
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  selection of free art-resources on the German artist Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner:

  • biographical notes on Kirchner, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Ludwig_Kirchner
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Kirchner, Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernst_Ludwig_Kirchner
  • images of the painting art of Kirchner, Wikiart: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Ludwig_Kirchner
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]