Early Life, Family and Artistic Training Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was born on 6 May 1880 in Aschaffenburg, Germany. His early years were marked by the frequent movements of his family, dictated by the career of his father, Ernst Kirchner, a chemical technician in the paper industry. This transient existence saw the family living in Frankfurt/Main from 1886, following a period spent in Perlen near Lucerne, Switzerland, between 1887 and 18…