May 6, 1880

The art of the German expressionist painter, Ernst Kirchner (May 6, 1880 to June 15, 1938) is still underrated although his world wide reputation has persisted the past century. His work was represented in the 1913 Armory show in New York. In 1933 he was labeled a degenerate artist, in that popular social insanity you already know about, and in 1937 many of his canvases were burned. He had lived in Switzerland since his nervous breakdown in World War I. Although there when the Nazis annexed his homeland, (Bavaria) on March 12, 1938, he killed himself a couple of months later.
The date on his canvas Schwarzer Kater, of 1926, invites us to recall this great artist in happier times.