The German fantasist Paul Scheerbart’s greatest novel, Lesabéndio, was first published in 1913, the year that Expressionism began to flower in Berlin. The novel, both deriving from and contributing to ...

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Germany expanded its boundaries to Africa though colonization. Although short-lived, lasting only until World War I, colonization led to new ideas in German ...

The works that best exemplify a uniquely German grotesque in Reexamining the Grotesque are those that reflect the war and Weimar years. With Franz Marc and August Macke: 1909-1914, the Neue Galerie ...

While today, abstraction is a widely deployed form of creative expression, this wasn’t always the case. At the turn of the 20th century, and evolving over the course of the next several decades, ...

An old museum label alerted staff at Ketterer Kunst that the watercolor had been confiscated from the museum in Halle. Christian Rohlfs, Study according a tree trunk (c. 1914). Image courtesy of ...

German Expressionist Franz Marc’s painting The Foxes, which was restituted in 2021 to the heirs of Kurt and Else Grawi of Berlin, victims of Nazi prosecution, will be offered at Christie’s in March ...

George Grosz, “Attack (Attentat),” 1915, lithograph in black on laid paper. (National Gallery of Art/Purchased as the gift of Richard A. Simms and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund/Estate of George ...

"It isn't just the characters who have gone insane, but almost the environment itself." Can films from the early days of cinema still influence movies being made today? Of course they can! And they ...

This exhibition explores the influence of western medieval forms, practices, and themes on German Expressionists and their opposition to the tradition of naturalism. Presenting a new perspective from ...