“Life in the Alps,” a triptych made by the artist from 1917-19.
"... But to linger on Kirchner’s lurid biography would be unfair to the mesmerizing technical genius of his style, amply on display in 'Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,' the Neue Galerie’s generous and essential overview of a peripatetic and unconventional career. Surrounding more or less sober portrait subjects with backgrounds of flat but brilliant color, as Kirchner did, wasn’t just a youthful revolt against the staid academic painting of the late 19th century, or a bid to put German visual culture on the map. (Of course, it did those, too.) It was also an ingenious way to articulate subjective experience in an increasingly materialist modern world. ..."
NY Times
Neue Galerie
MoMA: German Expressionist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, “Girl in White Chemise,” 1914.
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