Tre contadini
1922
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner captures three towering peasants with jagged, nervous energy in this 1922 sketch. As a leader of the German Expressionist movement, he used frantic hatching lines to make the men's tall, pointed hats and rough faces feel almost vibrating with tension. A tiny, wide-eyed child stands in the corner, looking completely dwarfed by these giants of the Swiss Alps, where Kirchner lived after suffering a mental breakdown during World War I.
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