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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

1880 - 1938

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. He volunteered for army service in the First World War, but soon suffered a breakdown and was discharged. His work was branded as "degenerate" by the Nazis in 1933, and in 1937 more than 600 of his works were sold or destroyed. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is the 120th most popular painter (down from 115th in 2019), the 287th most popular biography from Germany (down from 259th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Painter.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is most famous for his paintings and drawings of the German town of Davos, Switzerland.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ranks 120 out of 2,023. Before him are Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Yayoi Kusama, Simone Martini, Andrea del Sarto, Parmigianino, and Francis Bacon. After him are Juan Gris, Giorgio de Chirico, Raja Ravi Varma, Annibale Carracci, Pierre Bonnard, and Odilon Redon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ranks 11. Before him are Douglas MacArthur, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Fedor von Bock, John Boyd Orr, Robert Musil, and Oswald Spengler. After him are Franz Marc, Gideon Sundback, André Derain, Ludwig Beck, Manuel Azaña, and Paul Hausser. Among people deceased in 1938, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ranks 14. Before him are Marie of Romania, Georges Méliès, Mary Mallon, Faustina Kowalska, Nikolai Bukharin, and Kanō Jigorō. After him are Béla Kun, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Karl Kautsky, Alexei Rykov, Genrikh Yagoda, and Carl von Ossietzky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ranks 287 out of 7,253. Before him are Maria Sibylla Merian (1647), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Karl Weierstrass (1815), Ferdinand Tönnies (1855), Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629), and Joachim Gauck (1940). After him are Walther Bothe (1891), Sepp Dietrich (1892), Caroline Herschel (1750), Albrecht Kossel (1853), Albert, Duke of Prussia (1490), and John of Austria (1547).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ranks 8. Before him are Peter Paul Rubens (1577), Caspar David Friedrich (1774), Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472), Max Ernst (1891), Hans Memling (1435), and Matthias Grünewald (1480). After him are Franz Marc (1880), Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), Emil Nolde (1867), Otto Dix (1891), Anselm Kiefer (1945), and Franz Stuck (1863).

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