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Report 3 - UK significance of the collection
Points covered The value of the collection to the UK public should be evaluated in relationship to the other major German Expressionist collections in the UK at National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. Other significant holdings of German…
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Report 4 - UK audience role
Points covered The collection narrative that it was the first exhibition of German Expressionist Art in a British public gallery should be established and evidenced. The impact of the collection on British attitudes towards German Art since the…
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Report 6 - Current relevance
Points covered Outline the impact of German Expressionism on contemporary art. Outline the impact of German Expressionism on contemporary culture more broadly. How to Cite: Christian Weikop, Dorothy Price, ‘The Relevance of German Expressionism…
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In Memory of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht (both 1871-1919) were left wing socialists who formed the revolutionary Spartacus League in Berlin in 1914 in opposition to the First World War. Both were brutally murdered by German troops in January 1919 after…
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Two Illustrated Letters
Dr Rosa Schapire (1874-1954) was an important German art-historian and an influential supporter of the German expressionist art group Die Brücke. Based in Hamburg from 1908, she wrote supportive reviews for the Brücke artists, admiring the work of…
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In Search of the Black Mother
The story of Ernst Neuschul and the “Black Mother” This picture was painted in 1931 by Ernst Neuschul, who was born near Prague in 1895 to a Jewish family. They ran a hardware store, but he trained as an artist in Prague and Vienna and worked in…
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Black Mother
Neuschul’s paintings of unemployed workers, Gypsies and black people provoked Goebbels into having his pictures vandalised in an exhibition in 1933. Neuschul portrays the breastfeeding mother with a monumental dignity, her watchful eyes indicating…
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Self Portrait with a Cat
Laserstein depicts herself completely objectively in her Berlin studio as an emancipated woman and professional artist, aware of her individuality and unconcerned by her unconventional appearance. Her half-turned figure recalls the portraits of Hans…
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Woman Applying Make-up
The image of the woman applying her make-up is a powerful one. Painted in Berlin at the height of the Weimar years, it gives an insight into the changing fortunes of young metropolitan working women who, in the mid-1920s were achieving greater…
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Sick Girl (Girl in Bed)
The image of the woman applying her make-up is a powerful one. Painted in Berlin at the height of the Weimar years, it gives an insight into the changing fortunes of young metropolitan working women who, in the mid-1920s were achieving greater…