During his brief membership of the Brücke, Nolde taught the other artists his etching technique, expressing subtle emotional and psychological feelings through use of dramatic light and shade (chiaroscuro). In this self-portrait his head emerges…

Plate 4 of The Lord’s Prayer, a set of 12 woodcuts published by Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin, in 1921. The poses of the three figures reflect the three stages of the prayer. Pechstein joined the Brücke in 1906 and after living in Paris for some months…

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…

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 2 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17.

Plate 3 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17.

Plate 4 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17.

Plate 5 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17.