Das jüngste Gericht ( The Last Judgement), as depicted by Dresden Secession artist Walter Jacob is a powerful contemporary updating of a traditional image, complete with a bold portrait of Dix on the left, yanking a woman by the hair as she resists being...
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Dix's Die Skatspieler ( The Skat Players ) of 1920 shows three mutilated veterans, former officers, playing cards in a gaslit pub. So deformed are they by their injuries that they are forced to play with prophetic hands or with their mouths or feet. Little...
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Conrad Felixmüller, Opfer der Not / Für das Hilfswerk der IAH ( Victim of Privation/For the Relief Organization of the IAH ), 1924
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Wilhelm Rudolph, Helft am Werk der IAH ( Help the Work of the IAH ), 1924
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Will Küpper, Nach Dem Krieg ( After The War ) 1919 and Will Küpper, Streichhòlzer ( Matches, Matches ), 1919 Some of the most Compelling posters were distributed by the anti-Bolshevik groups. They used Images of gorillas and vultures depicted in Gaudy,...
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Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz (July 8, 1867 – April 22, 1945) was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century. Her empathy for the less fortunate,...
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