Cristalina on Nostr: Self-Portrait with a Pipe - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - 1907 ...
Self-Portrait with a Pipe - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - 1907
"Painted at the beginning of Kirchner’s career and the height of his involvement with the Brücke movement, the present painting is the artist’s first self-portrait and marks the beginning of a body of work that would prove deeply significant for him.
The year before he painted this powerful self-portrait, Kirchner wrote in the programme of Die Brücke:
“With faith in progress and in a new generation of creators and spectators we call together all youth. As youth, we carry the future and want to create for ourselves freedom of life and of movement against the long established older forces. Everyone who reproduces that which drives him to creation with directness and authenticity belongs to us.”
What Kirchner and his colleagues, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, were promoting was a freedom of expression and a rejection of the traditions of painting that they had encountered as art students in Dresden in the early 1900s."
Sotheby's, London
Oil on canvas
52.5 x 42.8cm (20⅝ x 16⅞in.)
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"Painted at the beginning of Kirchner’s career and the height of his involvement with the Brücke movement, the present painting is the artist’s first self-portrait and marks the beginning of a body of work that would prove deeply significant for him.
The year before he painted this powerful self-portrait, Kirchner wrote in the programme of Die Brücke:
“With faith in progress and in a new generation of creators and spectators we call together all youth. As youth, we carry the future and want to create for ourselves freedom of life and of movement against the long established older forces. Everyone who reproduces that which drives him to creation with directness and authenticity belongs to us.”
What Kirchner and his colleagues, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, were promoting was a freedom of expression and a rejection of the traditions of painting that they had encountered as art students in Dresden in the early 1900s."
Sotheby's, London
Oil on canvas
52.5 x 42.8cm (20⅝ x 16⅞in.)
#ArtIEnjoy