Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
Vor der Kunst die Architektur
In June 1905 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and his fellow students Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmitt-Rottluff founded the artist group »Brücke«. In the following years Kirchner advanced to one of the most important representatives of expressionism and he is regarded as a pioneer of Classical Modernism.
His work as an architect, on the other hand, is hardly known. Kirchner studied architecture for four years. 95 original architectural drawings by Kirchner have survived until today. They bear witness to the various movements of the time and illustrate architecture in the way Kirchner understood it to be, namely a total work of art- completely in the spirit of contemporary architecture at the beginning of the 20th century.
On large fold-out pages the observer can lose himself in the fine details of the drawings. The "Delvard" by typotheque lettering of the title used is inspired by Art Nouveau posters common in Kirchner's era. With their wonderful Open Type features they bring liveliness and colour to the pages of the scientific texts, set in low-key "Metric" by Klim.
