By Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Located in Roma, IT
Neben der Heerstrasse is an original modern rare book written by Jakob Bosshart (Zürich, 1862 - Davos, 1924) and illustrated by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Aschaffenberg, 1880, — Davos, 1938) in 1923.
Original First Edition.
Published by Grethlein Verlag, Zurich.
Format: In 8°.
The book includes 434 pages with 23 Original Woodcuts.
Mint conditions.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (born May 6, 1880, Aschaffenberg— died June 15, 1938, Davos). Kirchner was a German painter and printmaker who was one of the leaders of a group of Expressionist artists known as Die Brücke (“The Bridge”). His mature style was highly personal and notable for its psychological tension and eroticism. In 1898 Kirchner was impressed by the graphic art of the German late Gothic artists, especially Albrecht Dürer, whose influence on Kirchner was lifelong. But exposure to the Jugendstil movement and the dynamic art of the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch led Kirchner to simplify his forms and brighten his colours—a development aided by his discovery in 1904 of African and Polynesian art...
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