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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1874-1930
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
German Expressionist Painter and one of the founding member of the Dresden based artists called Die Brücke ("The Bridge")
Stylistically influenced by the following painters and art movements; Art Nouveau ,Impressionism Cubism, Albrecht Dürer, Francisco Goya, James Ensor, Paul Cézanne and especially, Wassily Kandinsky
Education: Technische Hochschule in Dresden, Germany
Mental Health: He was emotionally fragile and suffered several mental breakdowns throughout his life.
Cause of Death - Depressed over the rise of Nazism and the destruction of Modern Art, he committed suicide in Switzerland. The Nazis defamed his work as “Entartete Kunst” in 1937 and seized all of his paintings on exhibit in public museums.
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