Five Bathing Women at a Lake

"Five Bathing Women at a Lake" is an oil-on-canvas Expressionism painting by German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner from 1911. It portrays five nude painting (nu) women in various poses near a lake, with four of them already in the water. The composition captures the spontaneity and vibrant brushwork characteristic of Kirchner’s style, emphasizing a sense of naturalism and immediacy. Located at the Brücke Museum in Berlin, the painting embodies the bold, emotional expression typical of early 20th-century Expressionism.