Minneapolis Institute of Art

Coquette Offering Herself

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Date

1914

Medium

Etching

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

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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