Freelance Curator and Writer Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (pseudonym Louis de Marsalle; born May 6, 1880 in Aschaffenburg, + June 15, 1938 in Frauenkirch-Wildboden near Davos / Switzerland) was a German painter and graphic artist and one of the most important representatives of Expressionism. Kirchner was a founding member of the artist group Brücke