Erisava Staff Jul 23

Wrestlers in a Circus by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1909

Cleveland Museum of Art · wikidata.org

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Violence

Wrestlers in a Circus

Public domain

Erisava: Is this actually a fight, or does it just look violent because of the colors?

They say Kirchner and his Die Brücke friends thought cheap, loud entertainment — circuses, wrestling matches, variety halls — was more honest than anything on a proper stage.

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