Street, Berlin

Question 0

Where did Kirchner move to study architecture?

Answer 0

To Dresden where he actually spent his time drawing and painting

Question 1

Where was Ernst Ludwig Kirchner born and where did he spend his childhood?

Answer 1

In Bavaria and spent his childhood in Germany and Switzerland

Question 2

When did Kirchner move to Dresden?

Answer 2

In 1901

Question 3

What degree did Kirchner earn in 1905?

Answer 3

An engineering degree

Question 4

What group did Kirchner found and when?

Answer 4

Die Bruecke in 1905 in Dresden

Question 5

Who did Kirchner found Die Brucke with?

Answer 5

Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heclel and Karl Schmidt-Rotluff

Question 6

What type of students were all the founders of Die Brucke?

Answer 6

Architecture students

Question 7

When did Die Brucke have its first exhibition?

Answer 7

In 1906

Question 8

Where did Brucke relocate to in 1911?

Answer 8

To Berlin

Question 9

What text did Kirchner publish in 1913?

Answer 9

Chronik der Brucke

Question 10

Why did Die Brucke dissolve?

Answer 10

Because Kirchner published the Chronick der Brucke stating his independence and his proposition that he alone was responsible for its innovations

Question 11

When was Kirchner conscripted and what happened to him while in the military?

Answer 11

In 1915 for mounted artillery but he suffered a mental breakdown and was released from service and he recovered in Switzerland

Question 12

When did Kirchner begin to write about his theories of art?

Answer 12

In the 1920’s

Question 13

What academy was Kirchner made a member of in 1931?

Answer 13

The Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin

Question 14

What happened to Kirchner with the Nazi party?

Answer 14

They destroyed over 600 of his works and thirty works were featured in the Degenerate Art Exhibition in 1937

Question 15

Who was Kirchner;s life long partner?

Answer 15

Erna Schilling

Question 16

How did Kirchner die?

Answer 16

He shot himself in 1938

Question 17

How many paintings did Kirchner produce during 1913-1915?

Answer 17

7 works

Question 18

How many people are in Street Berlin?

Answer 18

Five

Question 19

What are the men doing in Street Berlin?

Answer 19

One is standing looking at a shop with four others

Question 20

Who are the women supposed to be in Street Berlin?

Answer 20

Prostitutes and the men are their potential clients

Question 21

What is the heart of the scene in Street, Berlin?

Answer 21

The brutal dehumanization o urban life

Question 22

What is Die Brucke categorized as?

Answer 22

An Expressionist movement

Question 23

Who were Die Brucke artists influenced by the writings of?

Answer 23

German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the author of Thus Spoke Zrathustra

Question 24

What did the bridge serves as in the writings of Nietaxche?

Answer 24

A metaphor for contradictory states of human civilization balanced between the pat and the future as well as between natural state and civilization

Question 25

What was always the primary interest for Die Brucke artists

Answer 25

The huma figure

Question 26

Kirchner's pessimism set him apart from what other Expressionist artist?

Answer 26

Wassily Kandinksy

Question 27

By 1931 Kirchner was recognized as a leader of ______ in Germany?

Answer 27

Modern art

Question 28

Kirchner's paintings between 1913 and 1915 focused on?

Answer 28

The dehumanizing relationship between female prostitutes and the men who are their potential clients

Question 29

What are the women in Street Berlin joined by?

Answer 29

A conspiratoral glance

Question 30

What are men's faces reduced to?

Answer 30

Blotches of peach with black slashes

Question 31

In Street Berlin what does the woman on the left wear?

Answer 31

A dark purple dress with a white fur collar

Question 32

What does the woman on the right in Street, Berlin wear?

Answer 32

A dark blue and black coat

Question 33

What does Kirchner stylistically convey in Street, Berlin?

Answer 33

The ambivalence of modern, urban life

Question 34

What is the sidewalk in Street, Berlin created from?

Answer 34

Shades of pink and red

Question 35

What group is Die Brucke a parallel to?

Answer 35

The Fauves

Question 36

Did Kirchner deny or confirm connection to the work of Henri Matisse?

Answer 36

He denied any connection

Question 37

Who was the author of Thus Spoke Zarathustra?

Answer 37

Friedrich Nietzche

Question 38

What did Kirchner believe about modern art?

Answer 38

That it had to draw upon but also reject the past in order for progress to be possible

Question 39

What did the bridge serve as the German philosopher Nietzsche?

Answer 39

That it served as a metaphor for contradictory states of human civilization

Question 40

What was always of primary interest to Die Brucke artists?

Answer 40

The human figure

Question 41

How did the artists of Die Brucke create their pictures?

Answer 41

Human form using models in the studio, and they traveled to the countryside together to paint models in the landscape

Question 42

What did the Die Brucke artists be interested in?

Answer 42

Capaturing the body in movement