Monday malaise, as embodied by the German painter and co-founder of Die Brücke group, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, in his 1910 work Artiste (Marcella). Kirchner met the painting’s stripe-adorned sitter and her sister, Fränzi—the teenage daughters of one of his neighbours—shortly before painting this portrait, and would go on to capture the spirited siblings on canvas multiple times in his distinct, expressionistic style. This sleepy study now lives in Die Brücke museum in Berlin.
