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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner / Potsdamer Platz

Potsdamer Platz

1914 · Oil on canvas

Women in brightly coloured dresses move nervously through traffic on one of Berlin's busiest squares.

LocationBerlin, Germany
Dimensions200 × 150 cm

Why it matters

At midnight, two elegantly dressed prostitutes pose for customers on a traffic island at Berlin's Potsdamer Platz. It is considered the main work of Kirchner's pre-war Berlin street scenes.

Did you know?

  • It was painted in 1914.
  • It measures 200 × 150 cm.
  • The Neue Nationalgalerie bought it in 1999.

Based on the German Wikipedia article Potsdamer Platz (Gemälde) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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