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the entire series into the early war period is certain.

p 96. "the melancholy of the street"... color here, like the functional use of lighting on the contemporary expressionist stage, "reproduces the dream process" to create "a dramatization of the stream-of-consciousness." through the green ambience the human protagonists are metaphorically made to "suffer a sea-change/ into something rich and strange."

p. 98 "It is hard to believe that wars are made by men. It would seem more likely that they are caused by disturbances in the cosmos which affect the earth and its inhabitants to such a degree that they are powerless. Men's nervous systems are torn to pieces by elements similar to those radiating from the atomic bomb; they go mad and destroy themselves and others. Artists

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are more aware of this process than others people because they are the most sensitive of human beings [Kichner] was the victim of a war to come." - Valentiner

p 59 the technical factor arguing most convincingly for a 1908 rather than a 1909 date for the entire picture is the vermilion outlining around many of the individual figures. These vermilion contours often have a three-dimensional quality, occasionally projecting above the surface of the canvas as if squeezed from the tube. This last vestige of ... impasto style is found in no later painting. (discussion of the 1908/1919 Street of MOMA) Much of the surface of this painting was touched up by Kirchner late in 1919 but, as was normal in the artists reworking of earlier canvases, no major changes either of composition or of color resulted. The entire paint surface is today quite thin...