Tag Archives: Expressionism

Liberation

Marc Chagall 1937

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The Real Moa (425)

A drawing of Moa and Erwin Osen by Egon Schiele. It looks like a photo to me. Schiele did put Moa’s name on his paintings of her. He didn’t do that for his sister Gerti.

Death and the Maiden (425)

This is the painting which serves as the subtitle to Dieter Berner’s film about Expressionist artist Egon Schiele.

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Grosz (303)

Some more images including a selfie.

Käthe Kollwitz (303)

These woodcuts were all produced during the early Weimar years. I originally found them in German Expressionist Woodcuts (ed. Shane Weller). The woodcut was a significant medium for Expressionist artists in this period, one reaching back to early modern practitioners such as Albrecht Dürer.

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Germania (303)

Produced at the very cusp of war, August Kaulbach’s Germania (1914) represents the visual and political antithesis of Expressionist art. Note the way in which realism is subjected to nationalist bombast. It might be worthwhile contrasting this image not only with the works of Franz Marc or George Grosz (among many others) but with Fritz Lang’s Die Nibelungen films.

Flower Garden

Emil Nolde 1917

From Caligari to Hitler (425)

This documentary (subtitle: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses) by Rüediger Suchsland– which takes its title from Siegfried Kracauer’s seminal study by the same name (pdf)– is streaming on Netflix. It’s a fantastic introduction to German Expressionist Cinema.