Street Scene after a Shower
1914
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner captures the jagged, anxious energy of city life in this striking 1914 woodcut. Notice how the figures are chopped into sharp, angular shapes, making the street feel almost like a fractured mirror reflecting the chaos of the modern world. As a founding member of the German Expressionist group Die Brücke, Kirchner used this bold, high-contrast style to strip away polite realism and expose the raw, psychological tension of the urban crowd just before World War I changed everything.
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