Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The small format oilcloth booklets that Ernst Ludwig Kirchner fills throughout his life, page for page with pencil, crayon, chalk, Ink, watercolor paints or charcoal, were for him, who didn't spend a day without a sketchbook, drawn diaries, documentation, and experiment room. The masterly talent of the painter for drawing is revealed in them. With a few precise strokes he could capture whole sceneries. Kirchner recorded everything his artistic eye appealed to him for painting and sometimes animated to write. The inconspicuous black booklets form their own and unique genre in Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's oeuvre and are among the most important original documents for art historical research. For the very first time, they were published within the publication for the exhibition “Kirchner’s Sketchbook. From Pencil Stroke To Hologram” in Kirchner Museum Davos. The sketchbooks show, which like no other genre, motive groups occupied Kirchner throughout his life and how he got his stylistic development from the street scenes to the New Style in thousands of sketches worked out. Based on their studies, it is possible tracing genesis from draft to finished painting.