Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Study Of Painting Art

Expressionism, as one of the important schools of art in the 20 th century, the German development to the heyday, argue first 20 years of this century is art and consciousness formation stage, in the meantime expressionism has experienced production, the three periods of boom and recession. Expressionism existence is not only to reveal the essence of all things in the world, more important is to express the artists really exist, so to some extent, expressionist breaks through the traditional, evolved into a broader movement, even became a kind of life view. "Bridge club" was born in 1905, including Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, as one of the founders of the bridge club, is the rise of the last century in European modernism painting, German expressionist painting an important painter. His paintings have been affected by a lot of artists, such as van gogh(Vincent Willem van Gogh 1853-1890), gauguin(Paul Gauguin1848-1903), etc. So he is seen as one of impressionist, but kirchner always adhere to the creation of his own painting style, get rid of and the relationship between the impressionist. "Bridge club" artists living in a big city and nature, so street scene, the scene in the circus, cafes, and even trees can become the subject of their house,kirchner has been promoting a way of highlighting the theme, the colour is to adhere to the "naturalistic" to the artist’s works, the meaning and characteristics of color transformation becomes more striking, the artist and natural distance is more and more far. As the young generation of painters, kirchner and three other members of the young people passion as a source of motivation, contempt of all traditions, emancipate the mind, showing great enthusiasm for art. This paper will take the German expressionist for clues to the key of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painting to do research, explore the artist’s life and its art value.