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(9) 1914 Two Women on the Street [Phrase in margin:] color plate: Kirchner, Berlin p 194

Frenk-Westheim, Mexico City

47 1/4 x 36 1/4" - cat 369

(10) 1914 Potsdam Square, Berlin [Phrase in margin:] color plate: Art in America - Jan 83 p 64 Kirchner Berlin p 195

Private coll. Krefeld

78 3/4 x 59" - cat 370

(12) 1915 p. 328 Woman on the street [Phrase in margin:] color plate: Art in America - Nov 80 - p 87

Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

49 1/2 x 35 1/2" - cat 427

p 92 Like anonymous birds of passage, or of prey, they stand and wait in frozen prisms of isolated space and stopped time. Asexual in their amorphously angular garments, angles of elbows, chins, shoes, and hat ornaments, echoed in the angular distortions of cab and buildings, create a nervously animated rhythm which transforms blasè asceticism into nervous tension. Embodying style, the women become, through style, the unconscious

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agents of urban anxiety.

p 93... Kichner noted "how the movement of the passers by is comprehended in the rhombus of the heads which is twice repeated. In this way life and movement arise from an original geometric form."

RHOMBUS: gr. rhombus - object that can be turned [;]akin to rhombein to turn, to whirl

1. an equilateral parallelogram with oblique angles. [drawing of rhombus] RHOMBUS

p 93 Here the zigzag qualities of the brushstrokes are utterly consistent with the two dimensional shape conception.

p 94 ... the street scenes originate preponderancy in Feb, March, April 1914.

the Potsdam Square picture is the largest one of the series and is the only one to approximate life size.

... it was in progress in the spring of 1914 but was not completed until after Kirchner's return to his studio following the outbreak of war that August... the duration of