Ernst Kirchner "Artillerymen" 1915
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No question, though, what the painting evokes in the viewer - from thirty years in the future, now 65 years in the past.
In his own mind it may have expressed his own vulnerability and that of his fellow enlisted men in a time of war, but it has a timeless, universal appeal - or horror.