Page from Der Bildermann 1, No. 15 (1916), verso Illustration To Bergziegen (Mountain Goats) by Christian Morgenstern by August Gaul. Printed by Paul Cassirer.

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…

Page from Der Bildermann 1, No. 6 (1916), verso Landschaft im Taunus by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Printed by Paul Cassirer.

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…

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…

Original Title Der Krieg Year of Production 1924 Artist Otto Dix, printed by Karl Nierendorf. Medium Book Materials Paper, ink Dimensions height: 26.2 cm; width: 18.2 cm; depth 0.7cm Credit Line Gift of Michael Brooks Copyright © DACS…

Hubert Berke was born 22 January 1908 in Buer, Westfalla, Germany and died 24 November 1979 in Cologne. Berke was one of the few German artists active after World War II who was successful both as an abstract and as a representational artist. He…

Martin Bloch (1883-1954) was born in Neisse, Silesia.  He studied aesthetics with the Swiss art historian Heinrich Woelfflin in Munich and in 1907 he took drawing lessons in Berlin with Lovis Corinth as teacher. In 1911 Bloch exhibited at the art…

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…

Born in Ynsddu, Gwent on June 8th, 1907 into a South Wales colliery family, Trevor Thomas showed a talent for singing as a boy, winning prizes at the Eisteddfods, and he continued to sing through most of his adult life despite being partially…