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Street, Berlin Flashcards

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Where did Kirchner move to study architecture?

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To Dresden where he actually spent his time drawing and painting

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

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In Bavaria and spent his childhood in Germany and Switzerland

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When did Kirchner move to Dresden?

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In 1901

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What degree did Kirchner earn in 1905?

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An engineering degree

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What group did Kirchner found and when?

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Die Bruecke in 1905 in Dresden

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Who did Kirchner found Die Brucke with?

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Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heclel and Karl Schmidt-Rotluff

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

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Architecture students

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When did Die Brucke have its first exhibition?

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In 1906

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Where did Brucke relocate to in 1911?

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To Berlin

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What text did Kirchner publish in 1913?

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Chronik der Brucke

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Why did Die Brucke dissolve?

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

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

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

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

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In the 1920’s

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What academy was Kirchner made a member of in 1931?

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The Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin

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What happened to Kirchner with the Nazi party?

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

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Who was Kirchner;s life long partner?

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Erna Schilling

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How did Kirchner die?

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He shot himself in 1938

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How many paintings did Kirchner produce during 1913-1915?

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7 works

18
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How many people are in Street Berlin?

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Five

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What are the men doing in Street Berlin?

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One is standing looking at a shop with four others

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Who are the women supposed to be in Street Berlin?

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Prostitutes and the men are their potential clients

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

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The brutal dehumanization o urban life

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What is Die Brucke categorized as?

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An Expressionist movement

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Who were Die Brucke artists influenced by the writings of?

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German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the author of Thus Spoke Zrathustra

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

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

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What was always the primary interest for Die Brucke artists

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The huma figure

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

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Wassily Kandinksy

27
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By 1931 Kirchner was recognized as a leader of ______ in Germany?

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Modern art

28
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Kirchner’s paintings between 1913 and 1915 focused on?

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

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What are the women in Street Berlin joined by?

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A conspiratoral glance

30
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What are men’s faces reduced to?

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Blotches of peach with black slashes

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

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A dark purple dress with a white fur collar

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

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A dark blue and black coat

33
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What does Kirchner stylistically convey in Street, Berlin?

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The ambivalence of modern, urban life

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What is the sidewalk in Street, Berlin created from?

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Shades of pink and red

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What group is Die Brucke a parallel to?

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The Fauves

36
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Did Kirchner deny or confirm connection to the work of Henri Matisse?

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He denied any connection

37
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Who was the author of Thus Spoke Zarathustra?

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Friedrich Nietzche

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What did Kirchner believe about modern art?

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

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What did the bridge serve as the German philosopher Nietzsche?

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

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What was always of primary interest to Die Brucke artists?

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The human figure

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How did the artists of Die Brucke create their pictures?

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

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What did the Die Brucke artists be interested in?

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Capaturing the body in movement

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