

His nudes, landscapes, and scenes of urban life on the eve of World War I are known for their unsettling effects of psychological tension and eroticism, while his powerful, crudely executed black-and-white woodcuts illustrated many books and magazines, including Germany’s leading avant-garde periodical Der Sturm. Kirchner, he began as an architect, before he became a painter.Ī leading figure in the early-20th-century German Expressionist group Die Brücke, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner produced paintings, prints, and sculptures that opposed the conventions of academic art.

ĭas Baukunstarchiv NRW in Dortmund, hat bestimmt mehr Besucher verdient. ĭieses Geländer ist bestimmt kein Handschmeichler, aber statisch betimmt genial - je mehr unbestimmte Elemente, (Schaniere) im statischen System, desto stabiler, ja, so wie Wasser stärker als Stein ist. Many other families have been displaced by fighting, landmines and rural poverty and are drawn to the city where the prospect of jobs appears brighter, further compounding an already spiralling housing crisis, but many fall victim to high rates of disease, violence and social dysfunction.In meiner Jugend gab es einen Trix-Baukasten mit Metallscheiben, Schräubchen und Muttern.

Thousands of landless families squat in poverty on whatever land or buildings they find available, having returned under the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC)'s Repatriation scheme after years of exile in the Thai border camps to discover their former homes were already 'owned' and occupied. Subject to annual inundation from monsoon flooding, none of these homes have access to any services such as electricity, running water, sewerage or toilets.

Naked children run and play amongst temporary dwellings built on ground that runs down through swamps to the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh, and which is typical of the conditions in which many thousands of Khmer families are forced to live.
