Ernst Ludwig Kirchner through shadow, light and colors

As one of the first artist ever, produced Kirchner eloquent dialogues and oppositions between painting and printmaking as a classical art forms and photography. He photographed famous models such as his addition to his sculptures and his beautiful portraits. Kirchner staged in such a comparative look between the real 'template' and the finished image. He reveals his personal system of expressive stylization of reality. At the same time he calls just by comparison with the 'reality' the freedom of art from any traditional imperative of mimetic fidelity.
Often, Kirchner was inspired directly from photographs. He developed such as in self-portraits of shadow and light areas in the color photography alienated dissections of physiognomy. Just as he composed figure scenes - as the famous sensual depictions of the couple Hembus of 1930

In general, Kirchner developed in the paintings from the 1920s of contrasts, overexposure and transitions of light, shadow, contour and color, dissolve the image of objects. It created abstracted, flat images with enigmatic image areas and new degrees of freedom. For these image patterns Kirchner himself coined the term "new style".

All Paintings, Photos and the one sculpture are from Ernst Ludwig Kirchner