The German Expressionist artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) was a physical and psychological wreck when he first arrived in Davos in 1917. Addicted to alcohol and morphine, he was suffering ...
They toast the new year by founding an art movement ... in Davos’s sanatorium in 1917, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner began transmuting the hectic urban expressionism of his shrill Berlin scenes to ...
1. The Legendary Figure of German Expressionism: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was perhaps the most famous artist of the German Expressionist scene, sometimes called the German Picasso.