These paintings of burning cities and fleeing people, coming just before the outbreak of the First World War seemed to be an uncanny prediction of what was to come.

Oil.

Oil painting, 1929.

Dix had returned from the war for less than 2 years when he made this etching entitled 'Match Seller' which is discussed here, one of a series called 5 Radierungen (5 Etchings), which show groups of disabled ex-soldiers, often with devastating…

Collecting Policy The Leicester collection continues to grow with new gifts, loans and occasional purchases. Like all Accredited museums, the service is guided by a formal Collections Development Policy. The development of the Expressionism…

The films capture the responses of people from all walks of life and show that everyone can enjoy this amazing collection of prints, sculpture and paintings. Like the German Expressionist artworks themselves, our interviewees often had interesting…

Leicester’s internationally acclaimed collection of German Expressionist art, and the eighty-year history of its development, are being celebrated in a new book. ‘German Expressionism: The Leicester Museums and Galleries’ Collection’ presents a full…

Max Beckmann (1884-1950) was born in Leipzig and studied at the Weimar Academy before he moved to Berlin in 1905, where he joined the “Berlin Sezession” in 1907 and met Liebermann, Corinth and Slevogt. During the Berlin period, he founded the…

Martin Bloch (1883-1954) was born in Neisse, Silesia.  He studied aesthetics with the Swiss art historian Heinrich Woelfflin in Munich and in 1907 he took drawing lessons in Berlin with Lovis Corinth as teacher. In 1911 Bloch exhibited at the art…

Max Burchartz was born on July 28th 1887, Elberfeld, Germany and died on January 31st 1961, Essen, Germany. In 1907 he began studying at an art academy in Düsseldorf but World War I prevented him from finishing. After World War I he withdrew to…