Three Nudes in the Forest
1933
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner throws realism out the window, depicting three lounging nudes with unnatural green skin and jagged red outlines against a stylized forest backdrop. As a founder of the German Expressionist group Die Brücke, he rejected perfect anatomy in favor of raw emotion, often escaping to nature to paint free-spirited scenes like this. Created in 1933, just as the political climate in Germany turned dark, this piece feels like a defiant celebration of the human form shortly before the Nazis branded his work as 'degenerate art'.
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