Ernst ludwig kirchner street dresden 1908

Zucker: [] The point you were making about Degas I thought was an interesting one, because in some ways France is going through those issues when Degas is painting, and Germany is a little bit later. There are lessons that have [been] learned in freedoms that have been generated from Post-Impressionism and from other artists. Kreinik: [] Just the coloration I think for me is something that makes it extremely like early 20th century.

I guess that knowing that informs my looking at this painting and starts to make me worried about the way that modern historians look at these images. Kreinik: [] I think that because I think of his prostitute, the streetwalker scenes as five years later. Those are less interesting to me, just even in terms of looking at the color and the composition for some reason, and I know that a lot of people like those more.

I like that this is more raw. Zucker: [] A kind of constant shift and change here, as if all of those voids, that wonderful pink area, is constantly changing and shifting as the figures that define that space move, right? Harris: [] Could we see the women here as sympathetic in some way? She does look out at us. When you said neon, I could feel those kinds of lights, maybe, in the dusk in the city.

Kreinik: [] I think that there is. It pulls your eye in. Then everything recedes behind that diagonally to the left, in the back, so you see the girl kind of in the center stage. Zucker: [] That can almost be limelight coming in from below. The entire space is defined by the occupation of these figures or their occupation in space.

Zucker: [] …the space, and in a sense to build a city out of the people who are…. Kreinik: [] Out of the shifting masses. This is Koenigstrasse in Dresden, which is a main thoroughfare of shopping. Everything here will be different in a moment. Kreinik: [] I think I like looking also at just that little girl and her big hat and her ugly kind of claw-like hand.

This is a busy day, with bourgeois women shopping. There are two women at the right — probably prostitutes. One is clutching her purse, the other her skirt. The whole composition is very claustrophobic. Still, dark clouds are already forming on the horizon, casting long shadows over the future. In , he committed suicide by gunshot. DailyArt Magazine needs your support.

Every contribution, however big or small, is very valuable for our future. The central figures, prominently dressed in period attire, seem almost ghostly with their elongated features and intense gazes. Surrounding them, the crowd and background are rendered in vibrant, contrasting hues, enhancing the dynamic and somewhat disjointed atmosphere of the street.

Street, Dresden by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Order a Custom Print! View Image in Fullscreen. This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.

Ernst ludwig kirchner street dresden 1908

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