Max Pechstein Max Hermann Pechstein (December 31, 1881 - June 29, 1955), was a German expressionist painter and printmaker, born in Zwickau. Early contact with the art of Vincent Van Gogh stimulated his development toward expressionism. After studying...
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Posters: Max Pechstein ( Don't Strangle Our New Born Freedom), 1919 Rudi Feld ( The Danger of Bolshevism), ca.1919 The Between War Years As the 1st World War drew to it's bitter end, hunger and despair were rife throughout Germany. Military defeat and...
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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...
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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...
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(Der tod des Dicthters Walter Rheiner) (Death of the Poet Walter Rheiner), 1925
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Conrad Felixmuller Felixmuller left Dresden after joining the Communist party in 1919. In 1920 rather than use his recently won Saxon State Prize for it's intended purpose, travel to Rome, he visited the Ruhr District and studied the life of the coal...
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