The German Expressionist artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) was a physical and psychological wreck when he first arrived in Davos in 1917. Addicted to alcohol and morphine, he was suffering ...

morphine-addicted German painter in another Swiss mountain village, Davos. Dismissed from war service to recover in Davos’s sanatorium in 1917, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner began transmuting the hectic ...

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was perhaps the most famous artist of the German Expressionist scene, sometimes called the German Picasso. As a young art student, Kirchner focused on ...

Among the private sponsors who had pledged to contribute to the remaining funding were the World Economic Forum and the Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Foundation. Davos’s loss may be Chur’s gain.