He committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart with a pistol, on 15th June 1938. He was 56 years old when he died- he was driven to kill himself following years of persecution by the Nazis, who labelled him a 'degenerate artist' and sold or destroyed over 600 of his pictures. The last years of his life were spent in Davos, in Switzerland.
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was born on May 6, 1880 and died on June 15, 1938. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner would have been 58 years old at the time of death or 135 years old today.
Ernest Ludwig Kirchner died on June 15, 1938, in Frauenkirch-Wildboden nearby Davos, Graubnden, Switzerland of suicide: gun.
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