Allen Memorial Art Museum shows "In the Shadow of World War I"
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 02/05/2009
Oberlin, Ohio - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s 1915 painting Self-Portrait as a Soldier and four powerful self-portraits by Max Beckmann serve as the focal point of this exhibition of primarily drawings and prints dating from about 1910 to 1925. The emotional drama and psychological intensity of the works on view— underscored by Kirchner’s disturbing vision of himself as a soldier with...