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n
1: German expressionist painter (1880-1938) [syn: Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner]

Merriam Webster's

biographical name Ernst Ludwig 1880-1938 German painter

Britannica Concise

German painter, printmaker, and sculptor. He was among the founders of the Expressionist group Die Brü cke. Kirchner's highly personal style, influenced by A. Dü rer, E. Munch, and African and Polynesian art, was noted for its psychological tension and eroticism. He used simple, powerfully drawn forms and often garish colors to create intense, sometimes threatening works, such as his two versions of Street, Berlin (1907, 1913). Highly strung and often depressed, he took his own life when the Nazis declared his work "degenerate."