Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Street, Dresden 1908 (reworked 1919; dated on painting 1907) At the time he made this painting, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was living in Dresden, a large city in southeast Germany. In a letter to fellow painter Erich Heckel, he wrote of the Dresden crowds, “Completely strange faces pop up as interesting points through the crowd.

2024年7月21日 · Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Dresden, 1908 (reworked 1919; dated on painting 1907), Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA. Everyone is alienated here – the figures have masklike faces and vacant eyes.

2023年10月14日 · The artist produced a series of city scenes of Berlin from 1913-1916 but this portrait of a Dresden street arrived later, coming in 1919. It is one of many Kirchner paintings to be found at the MoMA.

Street, Dresden emphasizes the dynamism of urban life in Germany in the early twentieth century, depicting the swirling crowds and electric lights of the modern city.

Beneath the crowd’s feet is a bubblegum pink street. With no discernable source of light, and no shadows cast, the street appears to tilt toward us, adding to the sense of claustrophobia in this scene.

The artwork entitled “Street, Dresden,” created by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in 1908, exemplifies the expressionist movement through the medium of oil on canvas. This genre painting is housed in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, NY, US.

2007年11月14日 · The city is Dresden, the street its fashionable Koenigstrasse, the artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938). It is 1908 and the heady new century is in its youth. Still, dark clouds are already forming on the horizon, casting long shadows over the future.

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is a place that fuels creativity and provides inspiration. Its extraordinary art collection includes modern and contemporary art such as Street, Dresden (Ernst Ludwig Kirchner).

240 Kirchner, Street, Dresden Dr. Juliana Kreinik, Dr. Beth Harris, and Dr. Steven Zucker provide a description, historical perspective, and analysis of Ernst Ludwig’s Kirchner, Street, Dresden.

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