Still Life with Sculpture
1925
In this striking woodcut, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner plays a visual trick by placing a 'sculpture' right next to a traditional still life. The standing figure on the left looks less like a living woman and more like a carved wooden idol, her body reduced to sharp, jagged curves that echo the angular patterns of the room. She stands beside a massive vase of daisy-like flowers and a pile of fruit, all rendered in the high-contrast black and white style that defined German Expressionism. Kirchner was obsessed with non-Western art and wood carving, believing that chopping away at a block of wood revealed the raw, emotional truth hidden inside.
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