Kirchner in the Palace
Two oil paintings by Kirchner are exhibited in the Palace Museum.
Born in Aschaffenburg: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, founding member of the artist’s group Die Brücke, is today considered one of the most important trailblazers of Modernism.
Kirchner was born in Aschaffenburg on May 6, 1880. He was born in a house across from the train station, present-day Ludwigstraße 19, which his parents rented. Kirchner’s childhood years in Aschaffenburg were followed by the impressions and experiences of the cities of Dresden and Berlin and contact with the art of the European avant-garde.
The catastrophe of the First World War plunged Kirchner into a deep depression, and he withdrew to his refuge in the Swiss Alps. With the Nazi seizure of power in Germany and the confiscation of his pictures, his condition darkened into an existential crisis. In 1938, in exile in Switzerland, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ended his own life.
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Die Baumgrenze, Öl/Leinwand, 1918, Museen der Stadt Aschaffenburg
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Kirchner's drawings
Works by Kirchner are also held by the prints collection of the Museums of the City of Aschaffenburg, but these are not on permanent display.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Sich kämmendes Mädchen, Tuschpinselzeichnung, um 1916, Museen der Stadt Aschaffenburg.
