Coquette Offering Herself

1914 · Print

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Not on view at present

Where is “Coquette Offering Herself” now? Collection: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Minneapolis, United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

Checked: 12 days ago
In this state since: Sep 25, 2026
Source: The museum

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About the work

When Ernst Ludwig Kirchner moved to Berlin in 1911, he found himself in a glistening yet anxious world: electric lights, department stores, and crowds of working women who unsettled conventional moral codes. He responded with a series of prints whose agitated lines and compressed space convey the energy of modern life. Here a coquette offers herself to a dapper man. She embodies the ambivalence of modern freedom: she is economically independent yet trapped within a system of exchange.

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Details

Accession number: 2025.67.2

In the catalog

Prints Etching Modernism 20th century

Sources

Minneapolis Institute of Art
Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art — public domain

In the life of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The whole life

1913
The “Brücke Chronicle” and the break-up of the group
In 1913 Kirchner wrote the “Chronicle of the Brücke group,” in which, his comrades felt, he overstated his own role in its creation; a quarrel followed, Kirchner left the Brücke and the group fell apart.
1913
First solo exhibition in Essen
In 1913 the Folkwang Museum in Essen held Kirchner’s first solo exhibition, which established his individual identity beyond the group.
1913
First showing in the US: the Armory Show
In 1913 Kirchner’s work was shown publicly in the United States for the first time, at the Armory Show, the first major display of modern art in America.
September 1914
Volunteers for the First World War
In September 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War, Kirchner volunteered for military service.
1914–1915
War as a “bloody carnival”
Kirchner saw the war as a “bloody carnival” and tried to cope with attacks of panic with alcohol and morphine.
July 1915
Driver training in Halle and discharge
In July 1915 Kirchner was sent to Halle an der Saale to train as a driver in the reserve unit of the 75th Mansfeld Field Artillery Regiment; after a mental breakdown his riding instructor, Professor Hans Fehr, arranged for Kirchner’s discharge from service.