1926, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Bathers at Moritzburg -- Tate Modern (London)
From the museum label: This painting shows Kirchner's artist friends and their models bathing in a secluded woodland spot at the Moritzburg ponds outside Dresden, Germany. Kirchner and his friends were members of the Brücke group. Inspired by thinkers such as philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), Brücke artists promoted cultural renewal, a communal lifestyle and a cult of nature by rejecting tradition. Such notions also fuelled the right-wing ideology that culminated in the rise of National Socialism in the 1930s, when ideas around health and the body were used as a tool for the perpetuation of racial purity.
1926, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Bathers at Moritzburg -- Tate Modern (London)
From the museum label: This painting shows Kirchner's artist friends and their models bathing in a secluded woodland spot at the Moritzburg ponds outside Dresden, Germany. Kirchner and his friends were members of the Brücke group. Inspired by thinkers such as philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), Brücke artists promoted cultural renewal, a communal lifestyle and a cult of nature by rejecting tradition. Such notions also fuelled the right-wing ideology that culminated in the rise of National Socialism in the 1930s, when ideas around health and the body were used as a tool for the perpetuation of racial purity.