Reclining Nude MFAB(5s)
Week 3 Reclining Nude (1211 – 1215 ) 09/26 - 10/01/2021 ID 1214
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German 1880 -1938
Reclining Nude, 1909
Oil on canvas
Determined to “revitalize German art,” Kirchner joined with three other architecture students to found, in 1905, the idealistic artistic brotherhood called Die Brücke (The Bridge). The group was active in Dresden and Berlin until 1913 and strove to form a bridge between art and life, inspired by the psychological intensity and expressive form and color of Van Gogh, Gauguin, Munch and Matisse (although Kirchner vehemently denied the impact of these artists). Here, Kirchner renders a traditional studio nude forcefully modern—with brilliant, exaggerated color, a deliberate roughness of touch, and the immediacy of a sketch retained in the finished work.
Tompkins Collection—Arthur Gordon Tompkins Fund, 1957 57.2
From the Placard: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Wikipedia
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | MoMA
Reclining Nude MFAB(5s)
Week 3 Reclining Nude (1211 – 1215 ) 09/26 - 10/01/2021 ID 1214
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner German 1880 -1938
Reclining Nude, 1909
Oil on canvas
Determined to “revitalize German art,” Kirchner joined with three other architecture students to found, in 1905, the idealistic artistic brotherhood called Die Brücke (The Bridge). The group was active in Dresden and Berlin until 1913 and strove to form a bridge between art and life, inspired by the psychological intensity and expressive form and color of Van Gogh, Gauguin, Munch and Matisse (although Kirchner vehemently denied the impact of these artists). Here, Kirchner renders a traditional studio nude forcefully modern—with brilliant, exaggerated color, a deliberate roughness of touch, and the immediacy of a sketch retained in the finished work.
Tompkins Collection—Arthur Gordon Tompkins Fund, 1957 57.2
From the Placard: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Wikipedia
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | MoMA