Ernst Kirchner 140 High Resolution Images

Discover the legacy of Ernst Kirchner (1880-1938), a German Expressionist artist from Bavaria, and one of the founder members of the artists' group Die Brücke or "The Bridge". 

This download features 140 hi-res images in JPEG format by the artist Ernst Kirchner.

The images are all 600dpi or 300dpi and range in size from 3087 pixels wide/tall to 11620 pixels wide/tall.

Click on the link above to see a full list of the images included.

The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. He volunteered for army service in the First World War, but soon suffered a breakdown and was discharged. His work was branded as "degenerate" by the Nazis in 1933, and in 1937 more than 600 of his works were sold or destroyed.

Kirchner was born in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria. His parents were of Prussian descent and his mother was a descendant of the Huguenots, a fact to which Kirchner often referred.

Although Kirchner's parents encouraged his artistic career, they also wanted him to complete his formal education so in 1901, he began studying architecture at the Königliche Technische Hochschule of Dresden (now TU Dresden). The institution provided a wide range of studies in addition to architecture, such as freehand drawing, perspective drawing and the historical study of art. Read more.