until Sunday February 26 2017

Hamburger Bahnof
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Invalidenstraße 50-51
10557 Berlin
Germany

Hieroglyphics

The exhibition directs attention toward the 18 works by the artist in the museum's own collection: from the early Seated Nude of the Dresden Brücke period, to Bathers on the Beach (Fehmarn) and dense works like Max Liebermann or Meadow Flowers and Cat from the artist's late oeuvre.

Hardly any other museum Germany can present the wide variety of Kirchner's work so impressively. Several Kirchner photographs and books and drawings complement the presentation at Hamburger Bahnhof, underscoring the cultural charge of these apparently so direct and immediate visual worlds. References to Carl Einstein's book Negerplastik (Negro Sculpture) or the expressive dance of the 1920s show Kirchner's intense engagement with various cultures and folk art.