Self-Portrait
1935-1937
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner stares back at us with a haunting intensity in this late self-portrait, his face half-swallowed by aggressive, dark shading. Created between 1935 and 1937, this drawing reflects the deep anxiety of an artist whose work was branded 'degenerate' by the Nazis, forcing him into a lonely exile in Switzerland. The heavy strokes on the left create a dramatic shadow that contrasts sharply with the sketchy, almost unfinished lines of his collar and the background. It’s a raw, psychological glimpse into the mind of a German Expressionist master grappling with his own mortality just before his tragic death.
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