The German Expressionist artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) was a physical and psychological wreck when he first ...

Curator, Deborah Wye: Potsdamer Platz is an unusual street scene painting because it actually shows a place that's identifiable. We have pictures of this time, and this is precisely what it looked ...

Narrator: In Street, Berlin, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner depicts two sex workers in the middle of a busy intersection. Here’s curator, Deborah Wye. Curator, Deborah Wye: Kirchner chose these women as a kind ...

Their inspiration is a strange, sick, morphine-addicted German painter in another Swiss mountain village, Davos. Dismissed ...

Director, Glenn Lowry: Curator Starr Figura. Curator, Starr Figura: This is Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Street Berlin, a painting from 1913. It is an image of two prostitutes strolling the streets of ...

Narrator: The artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner made Street, Dresden in 1908, and reworked it in 1919, using oil paint on canvas. The work is nearly 5 feet high by 6 feet, 7 inches wide. In metric units, ...