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All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.
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'Zeichnungen von E. L. Kirchner', (under his pseudonym Louis deMarsalle) E. L. Kirchner, Genius 2, Book 2, 1921, 216-234, reprinted by National Gallery, Washington D.C. 2003, p. 226

 

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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