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Article: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner exhibit at National Gallery of Art.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune
- Article date:
- March 17, 2003
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Byline: Chuck Myers
WASHINGTON _ German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner saw the world closing in around him in 1938.
A year earlier, the Nazi regime had deemed his art degenerate and ordered 639 of his art works confiscated from museums.
Fearing the Nazis were determined to finish him off, Kirchner beat them to the punch and committed suicide.
Kirchner's work debuted in America at the celebrated Armory Show of 1913 in New York. Yet since then, he has not received the same level of recognition accorded to some of his German Expressionist contemporaries, such as Max Beckmann and Otto Dix.
These days, however, he's getting his due ...