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KIRCHNER, Ernst Ludwig: Potsdamer Platz

🖼 Potsdamer Platz, 1914
Oil on canvas
200 × 150 cm
Berlin, Germany

Fragmented figures collide in jarring angular forms across Berlin's bustling plaza, rendered in acidic greens and sickly yellows. Kirchner captures urban alienation and psychological unease of pre-war modernity through Expressionist distortion, influencing twentieth-century art's emotional intensity.

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