Street Scene (after the painting 'Street Scene' from 1914)
1922
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s jagged, neon-bright woodcut captures the anxiety of Berlin street life during World War I. Based on his famous 1914 painting, this print transforms the city into a nightmare of sharp angles and skull-like faces, where fashionable women and soldiers look more like ghosts than people. The harsh, clashing colors and rough carved lines perfectly express the psychological tension of a society on the brink of collapse. As a key figure of the Die Brücke movement, Kirchner used this technique to make art accessible, yet the result feels anything but comforting—it's a raw, electric scream of modern urban alienation.
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