Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German Expressionist artist known for his paintings and prints. Using lively brushwork, stylized forms, and vivid colors, he depicted portraits, landscapes, and city scenes as seen in his seminal painting Street, Dresden (1908). “A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness,” he mused. “In fact he creates new appearances of things.” Born on May 6, 1880 in Aschaffenburg, Germany, he studied architecture at the Königliche Technische Hochschule in Dresden before turning painting. Finding inspiration in the works of earlier German artists such as Albrecht Dürer, he was profoundly influenced by the expressive use of color in the work of Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch. Like the French avant...