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KIRCHNER, Ernst Ludwig: Straße, Berlin

🖼 Straße, Berlin, 1913
Oil on canvas
120.6 × 91.1 cm
New York, United States

Jagged brushstrokes and sickly greens depict a crowded Berlin street, figures warped by anxiety and urban alienation. Kirchner's Expressionism captures early twentieth-century metropolitan chaos, establishing German modernism's psychological intensity and emotional distortion as radical departures from naturalism.

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