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…

Dix had returned from the war for less than 2 years when he made this etching entitled 'Match Seller' which is discussed here, one of a series called 5 Radierungen (5 Etchings), which show groups of disabled ex-soldiers, often with devastating…

Collecting Policy The Leicester collection continues to grow with new gifts, loans and occasional purchases. Like all Accredited museums, the service is guided by a formal Collections Development Policy. The development of the Expressionism…

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…

Drypoint print, 1916.

Page from Der Bildermann 1, No. 3 (1916), verso Die Fahrt by Erich Heckel. Printed by Paul Cassirer.

Page from Der Bildermann 1, No. 8 (1916), recto Belgische Landschaft by Erich Heckel. Printed by Paul Cassirer.

Page from Der Bildermann 1, No. 15 (1916), verso Landschaft by Erich Heckel. Printed by Paul Cassirer.

From the series "O Ewigkeit Du Donnerwort", "O Eternity Thou Fearful Word" (words from the cantata by Johannes Sebastian Bach). Gurlitz published a folio of 11 lithographs in an edition of 125. In 1918 Gurlitz published the series as a book in an…