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KIRCHNER, Ernst Ludwig: Alpsonntag (Szene am Brunnen)

🖼 Alpsonntag (Szene am Brunnen), 1923-25
Oil on canvas
168.9 × 100.3 cm
Basel, Switzerland

Vivid figures cluster around a fountain in angular, distorted forms rendered with raw expressionist brushwork. Kirchner captures the psychological tension of modern leisure, transforming an Alpine Sunday scene into anxious social interaction—a hallmark of German Expressionism's emotional intensity.

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