Front cover of the guest book of Alfred and Tekla Hess. All the artists who stayed with Alfred and Tekla Hess were encouraged to add a sketch or poem to the visitor’s books. Many did, and the originals are now in the Bauhaus-Archiv Museum, Berlin.…

Originally called View from My Window, this was the upstairs view from Max Pechstein’s guest room in the Hess house. Painted sometime between 6th and 18th April 1919, during one of many visits Pechstein made to the Hess family home in Erfurt. The…

Red Woman was one of Marc’s last paintings containing the human figure and reflects the humanistic idea of man’s interrelationship with nature. A ‘primitive’ woman, untouched by the corrupting influence of civilisation, is harmoniously absorbed into…

The square adjoining the City Church in Weimar is the subject of this picture. Feininger knew Weimar from pre-war visits but needed distance from location and in time for a vision to grow in his mind. His technique of the precise overlapping and…

For Rohlfs and other artists in Alfred Hess’ circle, Erfurt became its own subject. In 1924 Dr Walter Kaesbach, Director of the City Museum, invited Rohlfs to stay in Erfurt. He hoped that the architecture of the medieval Cathedral and St Severus…

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