Kirchner. Fränzi in front of a Carved Chair, 1910

The second show of the series Context is dedicated to one of the Expressionist painters best represented in the Permanent Collection, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and precisely to one of his most important works, Fränzi in front of a Carved Chair, considered to be a masterpiece of the German Expressionism of the beginning of this century. Other works from different museums and collections on the same subject and belonging to the same period are exhibited in the same room. The exhibition has been organized with the contribution of Lufthansa and of the German Embassy. Its commissioner is Dr. Magdalena Moeller, director of the Brücke Museum in Berlin and author of the study published in the catalogue of the show.