Berlin memorial plaque for Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Berlin memorial plaque for Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

As of today, the city of Berlin commemorates the painter and graphic artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) with a Berlin memorial plaque.

The co-founder of the Expressionist artists' group Brücke moved from Dresden to Berlin in 1911 and lived in Durlacher Strasse in Wilmersdorf until 1913.Kirchner was born in Aschaffenburg and began studying architecture in Dresden. There he met fellow students Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - the four young men founded the artists' group Brücke in 1905. Kirchner followed Heckel to Berlin in the fall of 1911 and moved into a residential studio on Durlacher Strasse. Max Pechstein also lived next door to the artists' meeting place Bieberbau. The two artists founded the MUIM Institute for Modern Instruction in Painting, which they had to abandon unsuccessfully in 1912.

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