“Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops [in Berlin]. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface.” WantedStreetsMovementDeterminedSurfaceShopsVariation Author:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
“They [his 'Street Scene' paintings and drawings,he made in Berlin] originated in the years 1911-14, in one of the loneliest times of my life, during which an agonizing restlessness drove me out onto the streets day and night, which were filled with people and cars.” PeopleYearsNightStreetsCarPaintingSceneFilledDrawingDay And NightRestlessnessTime Of My LifeAgonizingPainting And Drawing Author:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
