Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Aschaffenburg; 1880 ndash; Frauenkirch; 1938)laquo;Leader raquo; autoproclameacute; du groupe drsquo;artistes die Bruuml;cke (Pont); fondeacute; agrave; Dresde en 1905; Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; joua un rocirc;le central dans les premiers deacute;veloppements de lrsquo;expressionnisme allemand (fig.186). Ses premiegrave;res oeuvres reacute;vegrave;lent lrsquo;influence de lrsquo;Impressionnisme; du postimpressionnisme et du Jugendstil; mais degrave;s 1909; Kirchner peignait drsquo;une maniegrave;re distinctive et expressive gracirc;ce agrave; un coup de pinceau audacieux; mais deacute;tendu; des couleurs vives et non naturalistes; et des gestes intenses. Il travaillait dans son atelier agrave; partir drsquo;esquisses reacute;aliseacute;es tregrave;s rapidement; souvent agrave; partir de figures mouvantes; de scegrave;nes inspireacute;es de la vie en ville ou des excursions du Bruuml;cke agrave; la campagne.Un peu plus tard; il commenccedil;a agrave; reacute;aliser des sculptures grossiegrave;rement tailleacute;es dans des blocs de bois. A peu pregrave;s au moment ougrave; il srsquo;installa agrave; Berlin; en 1912; le style de Kirchner; aussi bien de sa peinture que de son oeuvre graphique prolifique; devint plus anguleux; caracteacute;riseacute; par des lignes deacute;chiqueteacute;es; des formes eacute;lanceacute;es et atteacute;nueacute;es; et; souvent; un plus grand sentiment de nervositeacute;. Ces traits se retrouvent dans leur expression la plus forte dans ses scegrave;nes de rue berlinoises (eacute;voqueacute;es dans le chapitre laquo;La Meacute;tropole et la Moderniteacute; raquo;). Avec le deacute;clenchement de la Premiegrave;re Guerre mondiale; Kirchner devint physiquement faible et enclin agrave; lrsquo;anxieacute;teacute;. Conscrit; il fut profondeacute;ment traumatiseacute; par sa bregrave;ve expeacute;rience de lrsquo;entraicirc;nement militaire pendant le conflit. De 1917 jusqursquo;agrave; sa mort par suicide en 1938; il veacute;cut une existence de reclus; bien qursquo;artistiquement productive; dans la tranquilliteacute; des Alpes suisses; pregrave;s de Davos.
#1733951 in eBooks 2007-09-15 2007-09-15File Name: B00GO51004
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Great guideBy my dogs servantIve always been a "dive in and ask questions later" learner with new software. But I know nothing about color theory; graphics; photos; or computer graphics; and that ignorance made the "dive in" approach to learning GIMP very frustrating. I could see how the parts worked; but I didnt understand what they did or why or how to fit them together so I could do what I wanted; and the online help; while great; still assumed I knew more than I do. The GIMP Bible is superb and will definitely be my next purchase; but it is still too daunting; so that drove me to my last-choice option; to take a chance on ordering a book online.I opted for Klaus Goelkers GIMP 2.6 for Photographers; and I am REALLY glad I did. With the included CD offering sample photos to use as you follow the step-by-step instructions; Ive been able to fill in some of the gaps in my base knowledge while learning how to get started with GIMP. The presentation is clear and covers some of the basics in ways that I found very helpful. Text is well-written and well laid out; illustrations are clear and chosen to be truly instructive. Each step leads logically to the next; and along the way Goelker offers some hints and outside resources that are also proving helpful. And with each step; the excellent help for GIMP on-line is finally beginning to make sense; too.I highly recommend this book to both beginning GIMP users; photographers or not; and to intermediate users who want an easy-to-use guide for clarification; assistance; and good ideas on how to use GIMP effectively in their work. Definitely five stars!5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Gimp 2.6 by Klaus GoelkerBy Philly MongrolI picked this book as a Kindle ebook for nine bucks. Well worth the investment if you like to tinker with photos. There is nothing I can comment here to critique this book lower than the five starsthat I gave it.However; here is what I will say:Be warned. Gimp is a very intuitive and complex photo suite. It is an Open-Source Software which is a good thing; because that simply means; it is free for the download. It installs itself easily and seems to run well with no problems on my Windows 7 operating systems; however; I believe there are multiple operating system downloads available.Be advised Gimp is always being upgraded; so you have to make sure you are running Gimp 2.6 or this book will be difficult to follow as many menu selections are either moved somewhere else or has many attached features rendering that selection very confusing.I felt I needed to send out this review with this heads-up so that you select the right version of Gimp if you intend to make this purchase.Other than that; you will enjoy this book; and the software will match to boot!13 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Clearly written with color examples and practice filesBy CustomerIve purchased a three books on Gimp; even though I have learned it mostly from watching YouTube videos (GimpKnowHow and GimpTricks have very good videos to learn from). This is the only book of the three that is worth the money. The main title is somewhat misleading however as the book includes discussions on other open source photo editing software (eg - UFRaw which works with Gimp for editing Raw photos). This book is very clearly written; and includes a DVD with practice files and a pdf version of the book (which I use more often the hardcopy). I highly recommend it.
