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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Wrestlers in a Circus

1909
oil on canvas
80.5 × 94 cm (31.7 × 37 in)

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During the 1930s, 639 works by Kirchner were removed from German museums and either destroyed or sold to foreign collectors and museums. The year after the Nazis organized the Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich, Kirchner committed suicide.

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