Minneapolis Institute of Art

Coquette Offering Herself

Ernst Ludwig KirchnerLinkedCulture matchlcp-2c10085ae84b

Date: 1914
Medium: Etching
Department: European Art
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID: 149781

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When Ernst Ludwig Kirchner moved to Berlin in 1911 , he found himself in a glistening yet anxious world: electric lights, department stores, and crowds of working women who unsettled conventional moral codes. He responded with a series of prints whose agitated lines and compressed space convey the energy of modern life. Here a coquette offers herself to a dapper man. She embodies the ambivalence of modern freedom: she is economically independent yet trapped within a system of exchange.

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