“I see the possibilities of a new kind of painting. With free surfaces, the goal I was always steering towards.”

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

In a letter, 1923; as quoted in Expressionism, de:Wolf-Dieter Dube; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 52
1920's

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German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker 1880–1938

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