Kirchnerhaus

The address at that time was Große Bahnhofsstraße 217 D. The family's place of residence had a major influence on Kirchner's early artistic development.

It gives me the heightened awareness of life that is the origin of the artistic work.” The motif of the moving train can be seen, among other things, in Kirchner's painting Rheinbrücke in Cologne.

On the occasion of Kirchner's 75th birthday on 6 May 1955, the Aschaffenburg History and Art Association had a commemorative plaque designed by the sculptor Otto Gentil attached to the facade of the house.

[4][5][6] The KirchnerHAUS Aschaffenburg association, founded on 28 July 2011, opened a documentation center on Kirchner's childhood room, on the first floor, in 2013.

That was the cornerstone for the creation of a comprehensive reference library, which now includes around 1500 titles, including primary literature by the artists Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Fritz Bleyl, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Otto Mueller, Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein, scientific literature as well as catalogs raisonnés, exhibition and sales catalogues, etc.

[7][8] On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the KirchnerHAUS Aschaffenburg eV, the bronze plaque by Otto Gentil, which had been saved during the restoration of the building, was reinstalled.