It would be nice if you wouldn't call me an expressionist. I'm really not one.

Quote from Kirchner's handwritten addendum in his letter to de:Gustav Schiefler, 20 October, 1927; from GB vol. 2, no. 411, p. 497; as cited by Peter H. Fox in Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Shadow; from the digital archive Loss and Restitution: The Story of the Grunwald Family Collection by the Hammer Museum