本书为在新艺廊德奥艺术美术馆举办的一次大型展览的配套出版物，对基尔希纳的作品进行了一次视觉化的概述，并对这位艺术家作品的不同方面进行了深入的分析。**专家撰写的文章探讨了基尔希纳的颜色处理方式，他对装饰艺术的兴趣，电灯如何影响其色彩处理，尼采对他的作品的影响，以及**次世界大战对他的深刻影响。本书的插图包括近40幅油画、30幅版画，以及素描，素描本，照片和装饰作品。

Throughout his career, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner employed a highly inventive and original use of colour. He favoured novel applications of paint in unusual matte finishes. For Kirchner, colour was of primary importance, coupled with technique and style. He was one of the leading Expressionist painters of the time and was one of the founding members of the Brucke. In his deeply personal depictions, he focused on the places where he lived and worked and his close friends and associates. This book, accompanying a major exhibition at the Neue Galerie New York, provides a visual survey of Kirchner's oeuvre and offers an in-depth analysis of different aspects of the artist's output. Essays by leading experts examine Kirchner's approach to colour, his interest in the decorative arts, how electric light affected his treatment of colour, the impact of Nietzsche on his work, and how he was profoundly changed by World War I. This book includes illustrations of nearly 40 paintings, 30 prints, as well as drawings, sketchbooks, photographs, and decorative work.