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I already realized [that time] that only a new study of nature and a new attitude towards life would bring the much-needed renewal of German art.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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looking back to his early art-student years in Munich [c. 1903/4], when he was standing before the artdeco paintings of Leo Putz and Fritz Erler

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