Alternative title: The Granddaughter in the Wicker Chair Liebermann’s granddaughter was a much loved and frequent visitor to the artist’s lakeside villa. In this relaxed and unsentimental study, she is shown with her book leaning on a chair, while…

The Brücke artists often holidayed together in the summer, sketching their models from life outdoors, in the woods or on the beach. Although produced after Pechstein’s expulsion from Die Brücke in 1912, this work symbolises an important Brücke…

Plate 6 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17.

Plate 17 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17. The transformation of the Great War into a brutal mechanised slaughter is given a surreal and ironic twist. Civilians terrified by the prospect of war can line up in a tree-lined boulevard, pay a coin into a…

Müller was reputedly the grandson of a Gypsy, joining Die Brücke in 1910. Between 1924 and his death in 1930 he toured Dalmatia, Hungary and Romania studying the Gypsy culture which became the focus of his art. This realistic study contrasts…

Lithograph, 1926.