Plate 1 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17. Darkness characterises the first plate in the series, the heads of phantoms loom out of the gloom to look down on a lowly figure about to step forward across a series of ridges in the ground, each numbered with the…

Plate 13 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17. In this powerful image, Slevogt depicts the mythical winged horse Pegasus stripped of its heroic status and power. The same creature that Perseus rode to rescue Andromeda is now wretched, its proud head hung low…

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…

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…

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…

This is Plate 12 from the series of 50 entitled War, published by Karl Nierendorf in 1924. War is Dix’s best-known printed work, in which he depicted the horror of WWI as he had experienced it. Dix had made over 600 drawings while serving as a…

Reconstruction, with original fragments. Johannes Koelz (1895-1971) was born in Muehldorf, Bavaria. He entered the Munich Academy of Art but his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of World War 1. After the death of his brother Hans, killed in…

Lithograph.

Etching, 1908.

Welcome to the website of Leicester's German Expressionist Collection. Discover, enjoy and be inspired by the art, stories and artists of this exciting movement. Here we tell the story of the beginnings of the Expressionist movement in Germany and…