Öffentliche Führung im Kirchner Museum Davos

Guided tour through the exhibition "Rediscovered and Reunited. Frames and pictures by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner" at the Kirchner Museum Davos. The exhibition presents exceptional international loans of works by the Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, spanning his entire career. The show examines the significance of artist-made frames for Kirchner’s paintings. As decorative borders surrounding and protecting artworks, frames were long regarded as merely marginal, but the advent of modernism prompted a revaluation of their importance as integral components of works of art. Numerous original frames were once part of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s painterly oeuvre. To him, the relationship between painted canvases and his often custom-made, intricately designed frames became increasingly central to his artistic practice.