Publications by tag: ernst ludwig kirchner

Sotheby's two-day sale series of Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist Art achieved a combined total of $143.7 million, above the low estimate of $105 million. These sales on 26 and 27 February in London mark the start of the auction calendar year, for which many art lovers have high expectations.

It is impossible to ignore this color. It is the most preferable, explicit and eloquent. It was the first to be applied in the art history not to speak of the chromatic scale. It has attracted the attention since early ages because of its nature and the nature of human beings; that is the reason why it is associated with so vital concepts as blood and fire. Absorbing all the natural senses, the…

You can hardly tell the exact day or year of the birth of Expressionism, which is usual for all powerful art movements. You cannot draw a border on the map and indicate the territory where Expressionism took its start and got stronger. Overall, it’s all roughly known. Except for one rock-solid spatiotemporal benchmark: Northern Europe on the eve of the First World War. Expressionism is an avant…