"Two women in the café" by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (limited reproduction)

The impressionists could say in a gross shortening, find their way back from the studios to the wild, but the expressionists discover the big city and its people as a central motive. It is the basic experience of this time: Berlin has long since grown to the city of the million, and the urban interplay of familiarity and anonymity gives the painters the topic. Kirchner's "Two women in the café" portrays the time -typical, emphasizes self -confident women's figures in presumably gas light -light ambience.