The scene radiates tension. The crowded city street—here, Dresden’s fashionable and wealthy Königstrasse (King Street)—was a frequent subject for artists in the German Expressionist collective Die Brücke (The Bridge), which Kirchner helped found in 1905. The scene radiates tension. Street, Dresden is Kirchner’s bold, discomfiting attempt to render the jarring experience of modern urban bustle. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Dresden, oil on canvas, 1908 (Museum of Modern Art, New York) Key points: Street, Dresden emphasizes the dynamism of urban life in Germany in the early twentieth century, depicting the swirling crowds and electric lights of the modern city. ; It recalls the isolation and psychological angst explored by earlier nineteenth-century artists, but reflects the twentieth-century … Its packed pedestrians are locked in a constricting space; the plane of the sidewalk, in an unsettlingly intense pink (part of a palette of shrill and clashing colors), slopes steeply upward, and exit to the rear is blocked by a trolley car. The Alpine scenery, a far cry from the crowded streets of Dresden, inspired a shift to a more serene style in which Kirchner painted landscapes. The street—Dresden's fashionable … Street, Dresden is Kirchner's bold, discomfiting attempt to render the jarring experience of modern urban bustle. But in the late thirties the angst returned and he committed suicide.