Two Seated Female Nudes
ca. 1915
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, a founding member of the radical German Expressionist group Die Brücke (The Bridge), captured the raw, nervous energy of the early 20th century in this sketch. Created around 1915, right in the middle of World War I and shortly after his own mental breakdown, the drawing features two nude women rendered with jagged, frantic lines that seem to vibrate with anxiety. Instead of smooth, idealized beauty, Kirchner gives us angular bodies and shadowy faces, stripping away the polish to show something much more human and vulnerable.
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