Original edition published in 1989. Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-295).
Contents:
The Brücke group of artists (Ernst Ludwig Kirchner ; Erich Heckel ; Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ; Max Pechstein ; Otto Mueller) -- Northern German Expressionism (Emil Nolde ; Paula Modersohn-Becker ; Christian Rohlfs) -- The Blaue Reiter (Wassily Kandinsky ; Franz Marc ; Laexej von Jawlensky ; Gabriele Münter ; Marianne von Werefkin) -- Rhenish expressionism (August Macke ; Heinrich Campendonk ; Wilhelm Morgner) -- The subject of the city (Max Beckmann ; Otto Dix ; George Grosz ; Conrad Felixmüller ; Ludwig Meidner ; Lyonel Feininger) -- Expressionism in Vienna (Oska Kokoschka ; Egon Schiele) -- Biographical notes and literature.
Summary:
In this comprehensive collection, director of the Gerhard Richter Archive Dietmar Elger gathers the many artists and elements of this urgent, scattered, complex movement into one authoritative overview of its protagonists, principles, and essential role in 20th-century modernism. Finding a critical calm amid the frenzy of color and distortion, the book distills Expressionism's leading collectives, Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, as well as its regional characteristics across its Berlin and Munich hubs, and its North German, Rheinland, and Viennese variants.
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