Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), a former architecture student in Dresden, transposed Munch’s social pessimism into the colour of van Gogh and the Fauve Matisse. Kirchner was the leader and most gifted member of a group of artists, all under thirty, which took the name of the Künstler-Gruppe Brücke or “Artists’ Group of the Bridge,” meaning a

We know the names of some artists who died: among the painters, Umberto Boccioni, Franz Marc, and

for Otto Dix and Max Beckmann, who fought in Flanders, or for László Moholy-Nagy.