Expressionism

Dorothy Price

This book presents new research on the histories and legacies of the German Expressionist group Blaue Reiter, the founding force behind modernist abstraction. For the first time Blaue Reiter is subjected to a variety of novel inter-disciplinary perspectives, ranging from a philosophical enquiry into its language and visual perception to analyses of its gender dynamics, its reception at different historical junctures throughout the twentieth century and its legacies for post-colonial aesthetic practices.

Wolf Dieter Dube

The works of German Expressionist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, co-founder of the “Bruche” movement in Dresden, convey the essence of the revolutionary movement in the arts which overthrew the stifling academicism of Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany and led in the years between 1900 and 1914 to an amazing upsurge of creative activity.

Stephanie Barron and Wolf Dieter Dube

This exhibition on German Expressionism, staged at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, offers an overview of a chapter in the history of European art that was not only important in this time, but fundamental to the development of the visual arts today.
Artists of the previous century had explored forms of pictorial expression based on sensory impressions. They sought a plein air effect, deliberately straying from the established canons in search of nature, in which the person was laid bare and hence utterly essential.

Joachim Neugroschel

One basic appeal for us at Philip Morris, a company with activities in many countries, is the cultural universality associated with German Expressionism. Shaped in part by French art, Oceanic and other primitive art, Munch and Ensor, this movement in turn has exerted enormous influence upon modern art everywhere.

Shulamith Behr

Women Artists in Expressionism explores how women negotiated the competitive world of modern art during the late Wilhelmine and early Weimar periods in Germany. Their stories challenge predominantly male-oriented narratives of Expressionism and shed light on the divergent artistic responses of women to the dramatic events of the early twentieth century.

Jane Kallir

Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele produced a prolific body of work before his early death at the age of twenty-eight in 1918. The oeuvre is comprised of a few hundred oil paintings and thousands of drawings and watercolors.

Schiele’s oils have often been reproduced and are well recognized. However, limited access to the fragile works on paper and dispersion among several collections have made for an unbalanced representation of his work as a draftsman.

Shearer West

This fascinating new addition to the acclaimed Oxford History of Art series explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about its nature. How has portraiture changed over the centuries? How have portraits represented their subjects, and how have they been interpreted?

Dietmar Elger

German Expressionists were uneasy and angry. Emerging at the dawn of the 20th century, they railed against Christian and bourgeois values as much as rampant urban industrialization. Anti-imperialist, they were dispersed, shattered, and depleted by the horrors of the First World War, and rallied their efforts only to be officially erased by the Nazi “Degenerate Art” exhibition of 1937.

Norbert Wolf

Sharp angles, strange forms, lurid colors, and distorted perspectives are classic hallmarks of Expressionism, the twentieth century movement that prioritized emotion over objective reality. Though particularly present in Germany and Austria, the movement’s approach flourished internationally and is today hailed as one of the most influential shifts in art history.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

A brilliant and personal examination by sensational and bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard of his Norwegian compatriot Edvard Munch, the famed artist best known for his iconic painting The Scream.