Großstadtwinkel (Dirnenwinkel)

Hans Baluschek was a German painter and printmaker (1870, 1935) known for socially engaged works depicting urban labor and working-class life in early 20th-century Berlin. Working in oil, watercolor, and woodcut, he brought an expressionist formal intensity to scenes of factories, construction sites, and street commerce. His commitment to representing industrial society and its human costs aligned him with the New Objectivity movement, though his work retained a more gestural, emotionally charged approach than many of his contemporaries.

Breslau, Poland