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  • Egon Schiele - Black haired woman Egon Schiele, New Works on Display

    Born near Vienna in 1890, Schiele developed a highly individual style. With his signature painting style, presenting portraits of distorted, strangely angled sitters, defying conventional beauty, Egon Schiele became one of the leading painters of…

  • Hess Shoes Advert 'A New Way To Give Pleasure' The Story of the Hess Family

    Alfred Hess (1879-1931) was a wealthy Jewish shoe manufacturer. In the 1920s Hess shoes were a byword for quality, exported all over Europe and abroad from the four large ‘M & L Hess Schuhfabrik’ factories in the town. Alfred Hess also…

  • Despair Margarete Klopfleisch

    Sculptor, painter, draughtsman and printmaker, Margarete Klopfleisch (née Grossner) was born in Dresden in 1911. War, and the catastrophic economic problems which followed, brought great financial hardship. The resultant ill health and fervent…

  • Give Us Peace! Dona Nobis Pacem (Give Us Peace)

    Title page from Der Bildermann 1, No. 18 (1916), verso Weihnacht by August Gaul. Give us Peace, (Dona Nobis Pacem), from the Agnus Dei in the Latin mass.  Printed in the Christmas issue, a sorrowing Madonna ‘clothed with the sun’ floats high above…

  • St. George St. George

    Attributed to Albrecht Dürer. In Christian hagiography St George, c 275-281 – 303 AD, was a soldier of the Roman Empire, who was put to death by Emperor Diocletian for refusing his orders to persecute Christians. According to medieval legend, St…

  • Three Nudes Three Nudes

    The agitated lines and distorted forms give the impression of a rapidly executed sketch of the three female figures momentarily pausing in movement. Kirchner was a brilliant draughtsman who continually sketched from life. Kirchner was the dynamic…

  • Shellfire Visions Plate 14: Shellfire

    Plate 14 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17. Black humour surfaces in this darkly comical image. Several skeletal figures representing death scream past each other from opposite directions, riding artillery shells and shrieking with glee as they fly toward…

  • Stormtroops advancing under gas Stormtroopers Advancing Under Gas

    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…

  • Gypsy Woman and Child (Gypsy Madonna) Gypsy Woman and Child (Gypsy Madonna)

    Müller was reputedly the grandson of a Gypsy, joining Die Brücke in 1910. Between 1924 and his death in 1930 he toured Dalmatia, Hungary and Romania studying the Gypsy culture which became the focus of his art. This realistic study contrasts…

  • Illustrated Letter 1 Two Illustrated Letters

    Dr Rosa Schapire (1874-1954) was an important German art-historian and an influential supporter of the German expressionist art group Die Brücke. Based in Hamburg from 1908, she wrote supportive reviews for the Brücke artists, admiring the work of…

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