Max Slevogt was born in 1868 in Landshut, Germany, and died in 1932 in Neukastel. After studying art at the Munich Academy and in Paris at the Académie Julian, he moved to Berlin and became involved with the Berlin Secession, meeting Corinth and…

The painter and printmaker Otto Mueller (1874-1930) was born in Liebau, Silesia. Before studying painting at the Dresden Academy of Art between 1896 and 1898 he had been a lithographer in Görlitz. In 1898, he moved away from the big city life to…

Schmidt-Rottluff and art historian Dr Rosa Schapire were good friends. She received many hand-painted postcards from the artist of which this is an example.

The taut, attenuated forms of this self-portrait and the pulsating lines coming from the sky reflect the oppressiveness and strain of the war years. The composition has been compared to Munch’s lithograph of The Scream of 1895 where the…

Slevogt was commissioned as a war artist, but, instead of producing a folio of morale raising propaganda, he produced a universal condemnation of war after returning from the front, which was condemned and censored by the authorities. He produced a…

This sculpture is closely related to a drawing and lithograph produced in 1922. After the war, disfigured or disabled war veterans were a common sight on the streets of German cities and reminded Barlach of the wretched plight of the handicapped…