News about Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

A painting by an artist who was banned by the Nazis and labelled a 'degenerate' by the regime has sold for an incredible £6million. Kirchner, who is known for his abstract works, was included on the Nazis 'degenerate art' list which saw over 600 of his works that were sold or destroyed under the  regime. It was thought that Tanz im Varieté was among them and never to be seen again, until it resurfaced in what has ben labelled as a 'sensation' by art historians.

In 1975, David Bowie was living in Los Angeles but his life was spiralling out of control; he was obsessed with the occult and, by his own admission, was surviving on a diet of milk, peppers and cocaine. In 1976, he decamped to West Berlin accompanied by his acolyte Iggy Pop. There he produced his groundbreaking triptych of albums: Low (1977), Heroes (1977) and Lodger (1979). Bowie became fascinated by the work of German Expressionists and was deeply affected by Erich Heckel's Roquairol (1917), which hung in Berlin's Brucke Museum. Roquairol was a haunting portrait of Heckel's friend, the artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.