"I painted it in Berlin [self-portrait 'The Drinker'], while screaming military convoys were passing beneath my window day and night."

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SuicidesPrintmakersPeople from BavariaPainters from Germany
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In a letter from the sanatorium in Köningstein, Taunus, to Gustav Schiefler, 12 November 1916; as quoted in Expressionism, ; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 46