Woodcut, 1918.

The front cover of a 4 page news print paper. See detail images for other pages. Kollwitz was at her strongest producing powerful images protesting against social injustice and oppression of all kinds. The despair of the mother who cannot feed her…

In this image Marc captures the lithe movement of the animal in its natural setting with simple defining lines rather than cubist forms. Along with Wassily Kandinsky, he was the co-founder of the Blue Rider group. The De Luxe edition of the Blaue…

Three horses appear in the composition, overlapping each other, with a red sun form on the upper right. The initial 'M', [for Marc] is present, lower right. Likely to be a commercially produced facsimile of the original woodcut, owing to the…

Published in 1919 in Genius, a deluxe art review founded in the aftermath of the First World War, which had seen Europe devastated both physically and psychologically. Although the cooler observational style of New Objectivity art would emerge in…

Woodcut, 1912.

Woodcut, 1912.

Pechstein joined the Brücke group of painters in 1906. With Heckel he was one of many artists who received hospitality in the Hess house. For the Brücke artists printmaking was a major means of expression. Here Pechstein uses the woodcut to portray…

Woodcut, 1913.

The simplified forms of the heavily patterned face show the influence of tribal African masks, examples of which the Brücke artists had first encountered in the Dresden Museum of Ethnography. The group were excited by the art of Polynesia and…