it's by ernst ludwig kirchner. it was begun in around 1909.t shows how they actually tried to live the myth of the primitive, to act it out for themselves, in what amounted to nudist bacchanals here on the shores of the moritzburg lakes. they decorated their studios as if they were the centers of a new tribal culture, one so free of civilized restraint that they could remake art. later, in munich, the artist franz marc would write in a way that kirchner would have understood. "our ideas and ideals must be clad in hair shirts "and fed on locusts and wild honey, "not on history, "if we're ever to escape the exhaustion of our european bad taste." for the brucke artists, it seemed possible to live and paint as if making a reality out of a primitive idyll, and, thus, confront modern germany, industrial and militaristic, with an alternative. in france, there was a loosely aligned group of artists who could also, at times, paint explicitly primitivizing pictures, and who were drawn as well to the preindustrial. i mean the fauve. they preceded the bru