Landscape of his paintings was the one of vibrant colours, intensity, with the emphasis on movement, and the capturing of the intensity and urgency of the city. Later however, his paintings showed an uneasy balance between the excitement with the city and the alienation he felt living in it.
Walls of his new studio-apartment in Berlin were soon decorated with primitivist hangings, Ajanta- inspired wall paintings and African sculptors he carved himself.īerlin in those years was just what Kirchner was looking for with the crowded cafes, different venues, interesting people, lively circuses and cabarets, the city proved to be very alluring for him, and the initial excitement with the life in Berlin was evident in his early works. We’ve become a large family and you can get everything you need – women and shelter.” Kirchner himself arrived there with his then new girlfriend Erna Schilling who helped him in re-creating the atmosphere of his studio in Dresden. Luxury and anxious energy of Berlin, the Hauptstadt of Decadence, were perfectly captured by Kirchner who said of Berlin ” You’ll be totally surprised when you set foot in Berlin.
Kirchner moved to Berlin and started a new phase in his artistic endeavors vivid street scenes with prostitutes and elegantly dressed men, chic streetwalkers with angular faces all presented in brilliant pinks, purples, blues and blacks, with heavy brush strokes accentuating the dynamic, hectic and urban mood of the decadent city. “ A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.”
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