Article: Kirchner: Expressionism and the City Dresden and Berlin 1905-1918.

The unwieldy title of the London version of this exhibition (as above)--its initial, Washington edition settling for plain 'Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1880-1938'--was suggestive of the superimposition of three distinct aims. At its most straightforward, the show was an irresistibly instructive introduction to Kirchner in the dramatic earlier half of his career. Through an accessibly narrated, superbly integrated, loosely chronological selection of one hundred and ten drawings, prints, paintings and painted wood sculptures, predominantly loaned by public and private collections in Germany and the United States, it traced the artist's precarious progress from the exuberance of ...

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