• Relaxing from the Christmas Parties.



  • The Palace on the Dam, originaly build as the Hotel de Ville.




  • Monument at the Dam Square in rememberence of the Second World War.
    Every Year on the 4th of May the Queen places some flowers at the foot of the monument.
    And for a minute silence is joined by the nation in saying "Never Again".




  • Although Grosz was a member of the November-gruppe for a short time, the majority of his searing commentaries on Weimar society and its rampant corruption were created outside the group framework.
    Like Dix, Grosz had enlisted for military service despite his marked antiwar sentiments.
    His experiences soon reconfirmed his horror of combat, and following an honorable discharge in 1915 he began chronicling his abhorrence of Berlin society.
    His vocabulary of chaotic scenes of crime and passion, of obscene officers, injured soldiers, and leering prostitutes in dark streets was increased and sharpened by his observations during the war and afterwards.
    He created a veritable cascade of paintings, prints, portfolios, illustrated books, and illustrations for radical periodicals, such as Die Aktion.
    A painting like Selfbstmord ( Suicide ) probably reflects the artist state of mind following his release from the army.

    MMaxi








  • The Expressionism movement in Germany embraces stylistic phenomena as disparate as the first abstract watercolors painted by Wassily Kandinsky around 1910 and the almost realist social driticism of the art of the Weimar period.
    One has only to think of Conrad Felixmuller.
    This in itself shows that Expressionism was not just a national stylistic phenomenon.
    It was in fact a higly complex movement of cultural protest, wich sought to overturn the prevailing aestethic and social values on a universal scale.
    It's purely stylistic charecteristics - however strong its predilection for sharp angles, distortions of form, or strong contrasts of color - remained secondary.
    The common features that can be identified within its enormous formal diversity are more a matter of content: specifically they spring from its critique of contemporary civilization.
    it was precisely when Expressionism began to use stereotyped formulas that its impulse began to wane, like that of a solidifying stream of Lava.

    MMaxi




  • On the River Amstel where the name Amsterdam comes from.



  • Der Schaubunder, 1921






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