Snowy Landscape by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - 1930 - 28.2 x 42.8 cm Galerie Henze & Ketterer Snowy Landscape by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - 1930 - 28.2 x 42.8 cm Galerie Henze & Ketterer

Snowy Landscape

oil on canvas • 28.2 x 42.8 cm
  • Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - 6 May 1880 - 15 June 1938 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 1930

Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker, one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke (in English "The Bridge"). In 1933, his work was branded as "degenerate" by the Nazis and in 1937 over 600 of his works were sold or destroyed. In 1938 he committed suicide by gunshot.