Why it matters
Five fashionably dressed prostitutes wait for customers on a Berlin pavement at night. It was the first of Kirchner's famous series of street scenes.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1913.
- The Nazis confiscated it as 'degenerate art' in 1937.
- It is in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.
Based on the German Wikipedia article Fünf Frauen auf der Straße (CC BY-SA 4.0).
