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A 7 page paper which examines, and then compares and contrasts, the German Expressionist paintings "Dancer with Raised Skirt" by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and "Two Women in Lamplight" by Max Pechstein. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the cracks when it first came out, only gaining attention in recent years. Two of the most powerfully popular German expressionist painters were Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Max Pechstein. The
following paper examines Kirchners "Dancer with a Raised Skirt" and Pechsteins "Two Women in Lamplight." The paper first presents a brief examination of German Expressionism, and then discusses and examines
the two paintings separately. The paper finishes with a comparison and contrast of the two. German Expressionism "That the early twentieth century was a period in which the
idea of crisis pervaded the thoughts of artists and intellectuals is well known. In many regards, it was a time of great pessimism concerning the fate of culture and the
future of the world" (Erwin). This was perhaps seen in the German artistic community more than other places because it was likely the artists who really truly saw the direction
Germany was taking. In addition, there was the pessimism associated with the directions that art could take at this point in history. "Art often reflected the general sense that
everything worth doing had been done before and that all artistic efforts were destined for imitation or at best parody" ((Erwin). As such many artists turned to the past to
find inspiration for a new direction. In many ways the Expressionist movement indicated that there was a deep inspiration from more primitive art. "Members of the Brucke artists group and
Der Blaue Reiter found inspiration in the ethnological museums of Berlin, Dresden, and Munich" (Erwin). Another artist, Paul Klee, often expressed a fascination with the primitive cultures and still yet,
"Max Pechsteins Afrikanische Holzskulptur and Ernst Ludwig Kirchners wood carving Adam manifest this conviction" that German Expressionism relied heavily on the influence of these primitive cultures and art (Erwin). It
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