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Staging nature and life : the late works of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Jens Ferdinand Willumsen

Title

Staging nature and life : the late works of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Jens Ferdinand Willumsen / editor, Anne Gregersen ; Danish-English translation, Jane Rowley ; German-English translation, Kevin Cook.

Publication

Berlin : Hatje Cantz Verlag, [2020]
©2020

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Description

201 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 28 cm

Summary

An exceptional talent, master of Expressionist art, cofounder of Die Brücke group. Where Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's work is concerned, superlatives are basic. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that there has been little critical appraisal of one of the most important chapters in the painter's life and oeuvre. Besides his Expressionist acme, his imposing later-phase work deserves special attention and recognition. In exile in Davos, Kirchner again managed to produce an outstanding cycle of pictures, before committing suicide at the age of fifty-eight. Though continuing to use his inimitable style, he nevertheless invented something entirely new. Nature appears as an intoxicating space in intense colors, where the dignity of the human figure is negotiated in a dynamic aesthetic. The scholarly publication gives readers the complete picture in the context of another Expressionist living in a self-imposed exile during those years: Danish painter J. F. Willumsen (1863-1958). The juxtaposition of Kirchner and Willumsen poses a visually persuasive and entirely new perspective on an intense, colorful and vitalist vision of painting from the 1910s-1930s. ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER (1880-1938) was a cofounder of the art group Die Brücke (The Bridge) and is considered one of the major figures of German Expressionism. In 1917 he retreated to Davos, where he created his later work. J.F. WILLUMSEN (1863-1958) was one of the most versatile artists in Denmark. Throughout his long life he was passionately occupied by artistic questions. He expressed himself in all the media of the visual arts that were available to him, and he continually made new demands of his work. Exhibition: Willlumsens Museum, Frederikssund, Denmark (09.10.2020 - 31.01.2021).

Alternative Title

Late work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Jens Ferdinand Willumsen

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

Catalog of an exhibition held at Willumsen's Museum, Frederikssund, October 10, 2020-January 31, 2021.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JQF 21-652

ISBN

9783775746731
3775746730

LCCN

9783775746731

OCLC

1222798930

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Publisher

Berlin : Hatje Cantz Verlag, [2020]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig, 1880-1938. Works. Selections.

Willumsen, J. F. (Jens Ferdinand), 1863-1958. Works. Selections.

Gregersen, Anne, editor.

Rowley, Jane (Translator), translator.

Cook, Kevin (Translator), translator.

J.F. Willumsens museum, host institution.

Other Form:

9783775746748 German edition

9783775746755 Danish edition

Other Standard Identifier

9783775746731

Research Call Number

JQF 21-652

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