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The Kirchner Museum was founded in Davos in 1982 and was housed at first in the old post office building in Davos Platz. The Swiss art collector and dealer Eberhard W. Kornfeld, who had already acquired Kirchner's final house on Wildboden in Frauenkirch, near Davos, in the 1960s, and opened there his Kirchner collection to the public, on weekends, was instrumental in setting it up.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 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.
The American Philatelic Association was formed in 1886. [1] Other national, regional, and local clubs followed during the late nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries. Most of these societies were dominated by white men of financial means, and some actively excluded women and persons of color, though newer and more local clubs formed in the ...
Berlin Street Scene 1913 by Kirchner: Berlin Street Scene by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Alfred Hess [49] Bruecke Museum in Berlin and City of Berlin After initially arguing that financial troubles unrelated to Nazi persecution caused the sale, [50] Berlin restituted the painting to the heirs. [51] painting by Wilhelm von Schadow's The Artist’s ...
The painting gained public attention during the dispute over the restitution in 2006. It had belonged to the Jewish art collector Alfred Hess until his death. In 1936 the painting was transferred by his widow Tekla Hess to the art association cologne. There it was sold to the art collector Carl Hagemann under unclear circumstances.
Berlin Street Scene (German: Berliner Straßenszene) is a 1913 painting from the cycle Street scenes, by the German expressionist artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.The cycle, created by Kirchner between 1913 and 1915, often depicts "Kokotten" (prostitutes) with their clients, and is regarded as one of the most important works of German Expressionism.
American Vecturist Association (AVA) Anchorage Coin Club; Ancient Coin Collectors Guild (ACCG) Blue Ridge Numismatic Association (BRNA) Central States Numismatic Society; Medal Collectors of America (MCA), founded in 1998 in Portland Oregon. "Its primary purpose was to serve collectors of world and U.S. art and historical medals.
Galerie St. Etienne is a New York art gallery specializing in Austrian and German Expressionism, established in Vienna in 1939 by Otto Kallir (originally Otto Nirenstein). In 1923, Kallir founded the Neue Galerie in Vienna. [1]