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
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
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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- Credit line
- The John E. and Marion Andrus III Fund
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