Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a brilliant draughtsman who recorded his visual impressions daily in his sketchbooks. In 2024, the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe received an extensive donation of works by the important expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner from a private collection: 36 sketches, five early catalogs of the Brücke artists' group and a handwritten autobiography of the artist found their way into the Kupferstichkabinett. They complement the existing Kirchner collection, most of which the Kunsthalle was able to acquire from the artist's estate in 1954. There are now almost 100 drawings, over 70 prints, 330 etching plates and 30 woodblocks in the Karlsruhe collection.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a brilliant draughtsman who recorded his visual impressions daily in his sketchbooks. He left behind around 11,000 sketches in 180 notebooks, in which he used a dense, energetic drawing style to intensively capture what he saw and experienced directly, often with just a few lines. Kirchner himself saw them as the essence of his artistic expression. The exhibition brings together around 30 of the donated works.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a brilliant draughtsman who recorded his visual impressions daily in his sketchbooks. He left behind around 11,000 sketches in 180 notebooks, in which he used a dense, energetic drawing style to intensively capture what he saw and experienced directly, often with just a few lines. Kirchner himself saw them as the essence of his artistic expression. The exhibition brings together around 30 of the donated works.
Studioausstellung.
