TY - JOUR PY - 1999// TI - On the psychopathology of the artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner JO - Schweizer Archiv fur Neurologie und Psychiatrie A1 - Lemke, S. SP - 248 EP - 254 VL - 150 IS - 5 N2 - There are conspicuous significant psychiatric features in the life of the artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner who was born in 1880. He committed suicide in 1938. The abundant symptoms are subsumed in 4 syndromes: an anxiety depression syndrome, a paranoid syndrome, an addiction and dissexuality. These syndromes show a peak between the 30th and 40th year of life, recede, and then partially show a new peak. His creative powers also peaked in the period before his 40th year of life. Kirchner's 'artistic talent' was thus not constant, but partly paralleled his psychopathology and partly is negatively correlated to his psychopathology.
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