Extract from the article: Despite his untimely death on the battlefields of Verdun in 1916, Marc was a prolific painter, especially between 1911 - when he helped farm he Blaue Reiter group - and the outbreak of the First World War, when he produced…

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…

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…

Ernest Neuschul was born in Aussig, a small town in what is now the Czech Republic. He studied in Prague and later Vienna, where he was fascinated by the paintings of Klimt and Egon Schiele and the expressionistic works of Oskar Kokoschka. At the…

From the illustrated book Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time), 1918 (published 1920). Both Campendonk and his friend Franz Marc portrayed humans and animals in harmony with each other and nature, in an evocative,…

Campendonk uses the woodcut medium to considerable effect, creating linear visual patterns and high contrast, evoking a strange dream-like place where the beggars form a tight little circle, a passer by almost disappearing into the black background.…

Oil, 1933.

Feininger loved to cycle around the villages near his home and studio, and Gelmeroda, a small village near Weimar with its wooden church became a favourite motif. Feininger first drew the church in 1906, going on to produce numerous prints and…

In this haunting image Felixmuller shows a young soldier, driven to insanity through unending nightmares of conflict, his face a twisted mask of pain.  Many young men returned from war with mental as well as physical scars, alienated from friends…

Oil.