Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a expressionist artist born in Bavaria.
Ernst volunteered in World War 1 which I can only assume brought inspiration to his Self Portrait as a Soldier Portrait. Instead of taking the "war is hell" approach, he's take a more "war was a weird lsd trip where I lost my hand" angle, and that's something I can get down with. Jokes aside, I'm not sure how to paintings are supposed to really make me feel. I know that the war was bad but nothing in this painting conveys that besides the missing hand and possibly the naked person in the background but I'm not sure. Ernst looks fine though he seems chill so whatever.
Ludwig was kind of a nut, he had a few mental health issues which I can't really blame him for because war. This image brings about a lot of paranoia with Kirchner looking sketched out at the mountains in the distance possibly being on fire.
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