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KIRCHNER, Ernst Ludwig: Five Women at the Street

🖼 Five Women at the Street, 1913
Oil on canvas
120 × 90 cm
Cologne, Germany

Jagged brushstrokes and acidic colors depict five fashionably dressed women crowding a Berlin street corner, their bodies angled and overlapping in claustrophobic proximity. Kirchner's expressionist distortion captures urban alienation and the psychological intensity of modern metropolitan life in pre-war Germany.

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