Sonntagsmatineé - Der Krise eine künstlerische Form geben. Kirchners Holzschnitte aus den Jahren 1913 - 1918

In the organizer's words:

Dr. Thomas Röske, Head of the Prinzhorn Collection, Heidelberg

Kirchner had already experienced the years following the dissolution of the Brücke group in 1913 as a time of crisis. In 1915, he suffered a physical and mental breakdown in the military, which led him to visit various sanatoriums in Germany and Switzerland. By the end of the war, the symptoms of this crisis had largely disappeared. During these years, Kirchner continued to create woodcuts, although he always complained of paralysis in his hands. Like other of his works at the time, they can be read as an expression of the crisis. The lecture asks whether this is always plausible. Did some of Kirchner's works perhaps even help him to construct moments of crisis?

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