Curt Ehrhardt was born 29 June 1895 in Saxony and died in 1972 in Schwarz, Hesse, Germany. In 1916 Ehrhardt visited the travelling exhibition “Der Sturm” in Berlin and thus saw works by Picasso, Schwitters and Marc. This caused him to get in touch…

Adolf Erbslöh was born in 1881 in New York, USA, and died in 1947 in Irschenhausen, Germany. He spent the first few years of his life in New York, where his father was on business, but the family returned to Germany several years later. Erbslöh…

Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York and studied between 1887-1893 in Hamburg, Berlin, Liège and Paris. In 1893, he settled in Berlin where he became a successful cartoonist and illustrator for newspapers and journals in the following…

Conrad Felixmüller (1897-1977) was born in Dresden, where he also studied. In 1915 he met Ludwig Meidner, with whom he shared a studio in Berlin, and in 1916 he and Lyonel Feininger exhibited in Herwarth Walden’s Gallery der Sturm. He served as a…

Original Title Das Gesicht der Herrschenden Klasse Year of Production 1921 Artist George Grosz, printed by Malik-Verlag Medium Book Materials Paper, ink Credit Line Gift of Michael BrooksCopyright Copyright © Estate of George Grosz,…

These paintings of burning cities and fleeing people, coming just before the outbreak of the First World War seemed to be an uncanny prediction of what was to come.

August Gaul was born on October 22nd, 1869 in Großauheim, Germany and died on October 18th, 1922 in Berlin. He was a founding member of the Berlin Secession. On close terms with art dealers like Bruno and Paul Cassirer, he became a leading figure…

Arnold Gerstl was born 17 October 1888 in Prague and died 14 February 1957 in Taplow, UK. He attended the Imperial and Royal Academy in Prague, then in Vienna, Paris and Spain. He was in charge of the Art Department at the film studios in…

Friedrich Karl Gotsch was born on 3rd February, 1900 in Kiel-Pries, Germany and died on 21st September, 1984 in Schleswig, Germany. Gotsch volunteered for the military from 1918 to 1919 and then began to study, which he soon gave up again. In 1919…

Walter Gramatté was born in 1897 in Berlin and died in 1929 in Hamburg. Gramatté had a very short (15 years) career but a very productive one – paintings, drawings and prints with subjects of figures, portraits, still life’s, landscapes and book…