STREET, BERLIN, Painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1913)

Ernst Ludwig painted two prostitutes and a dressed bourgeois man whom they view as potential clients. The painting advertised women profession by their large feathered hats and fur-trimmed. They seem to have deliberately embarrassed the man to their left, smirking as he hurriedly refocuses his attention on the shop window to the right.  In "STREET, BERLIN "the harsh biting colors, tilted perspective, and piercingly sharp brushstrokes make this a disturbing Expressionistic image of urban degeneracy and alienation, the women and men appear as artificial and dehumanized figures, with masklike faces and stiff gestures. Their bodies crowd together, but they are psychologically distant from one another.

Name	STREET, BERLIN
Type	Painting ,Oil on canvas
Author	Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Year	1913
Location	Museum of Modern Art, MoMa, New York, USA