Ernst Ludwig Kirchner once said, “It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surrounding in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.” Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was part of the German Expressionist movement which spread across Europe from 1905 to1920. German expressionism is said to be heavily influenced and even a form of Post-Impressionism, but there is a clear and distinct different between the two movements. Even though, both movements rejected the classic view of art, expressionism was all about expressing what came within the artist and interpreting the pieces of work through the feelings of the artist. Artists did not only capture moments in life but they actually put emotions and experiences of their own lives in their work for the viewers to interpret. The paintings “Self Portrait as a Soldier” and “Blick auf Davos” both by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner are examples of how an expressionist artist portrayed his own emotions and experiences in his pieces of art. Kirchner demonstrates this through the use of primitivism, vivid colors, and rough lines to portray his transition from an unstable and fearful mental state, depicted in “Self Portrait of a soldier,” to that of a relieved and serene one which is then depicted in “Blick auf Davos”.