Press Release Ernst Ludwig Kirchner The Painter as Photographer March 2―June 16, 2019 Mönchsberg [3] Numerous exhibitions have celebrated the painter and sculptor Ernst Press Ludwig Kirchner. The Museum der Moderne Salzburg now presents an Mönchsberg 32 in-depth survey of the artist’s work in photography, the first such show 5020 Salzburg in Austria. Austria T +43 662 842220-601 Salzburg, March 1, 2019. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880 Aschaffenburg, F +43 662 842220-700 DE―1938 Davos, CH) was arguably the only one among the German
[email protected] Expressionists who did more than dabble in photography. He left an archive www.museumdermoderne.at of ca. 1,300 glass and celluloid negatives, a collection of vintage prints, and bound albums containing photographic reproductions of his paintings, drawings, sculptures, and graphic art. Numerous exhibitions have offered public audiences opportunities to study Kirchner’s widely acclaimed oeuvre as a painter and sculptor; his photographic work, by contrast, has not received the same attention and appreciation. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The Painter as Photographer is the first exhibition at an Austrian museum specifically devoted to the artist’s photography. It gathers a selection of ca. 300 photographs, with examples from all genres the artist tried his hand at: from nudes, studio scenes, and portraits to landscape and object photography. “Kirchner did not think of his photography as fine art, but he extensively explored the medium’s possibilities. Working with the camera spurred his creative imagination and helped him devise compositional solutions; his art conversely reflects the vision of an inventory of the world in the photographic image,” as Thorsten Sadowsky, curator of the exhibition and director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, observes.