I Pretended to Study Architecture - The Unknown Kirchner

Edited by Katharina Beisiegel. Translations by Bram Opstelten. Texts by Katharina Beisiegel, Timothy O. Benson, Matthias Gegner, Alexandra Henze and Martina Nommsen. On occasion of the exhibition at the Kirchner Museum Davos, June 9th to September 22nd 2024.

"I then went to Munich where I pretended to study architecture, just as I had in Dresden, because my parents were against painting." This is how Kirchner describes his professional training in a letter to Botho Graef in 1916. A short sentence in an otherwise extensive description of his career and the influences that made him an avant-garde painter. For Kirchner, it seems, studying architecture was little more than a necessary compulsion, but one that did not leave much of a mark on the development of his work. Many of his architectural drawings from his years of study and his diploma thesis have survived to this day. The exhibition aims to bring this unknown side of the painter into focus and use the designs and sketches to highlight Kirchner's architectural perspective. 256 Seiten mit 192 meist farbigen Abb., Großformat, Halbleinen (Michael Imhof Verlag 2024) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear