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Ludwig Meidner
Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966) was born in Bernstadt in Silesia and worked as a plasterer and fashion designer before he studied art in Breslau from 1903-05. From 1906-07, he studied in Paris where he befriended Amedeo Modigliani. After his return to…
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Otto Dix
Otto Dix (1891-1969) studied in Dresden from 1910-1914 and was a painter of wall-decorations until he taught himself painting. Like many artists, Dix was initially enthusiastic when the First World War broke out and was a soldier throughout the war.…
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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…
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Ernst Neuschul
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…
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Soldier in the Madhouse II
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…
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Inderin
Partly repainted in 1969. The sitter, Sheela Bonarjee recalls being approached by the artist to sit for a portrait, whilst walking on Hampstead Heath. Invited to her home, Bonarjee remembers the émigré writer and close friend of the artist, Elias…
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Report 2 - International significance of the collection
Points covered An outline of key works and their particular significance within the narratives of German Expressionism. A list of public collections internationally that have closely related works. A list of private collections internationally that…
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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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Woman in a Café: Lotte Fischler
By 1939 Lotte Laserstein had been living in Sweden for two years. An émigré German lawyer, Josef Fischler had helped Laserstein with her exit visa from Germany, and this portrait of Josef’s wife Lotte was painted by way of thanks for the couple’s…
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Humility
Page from Der Bildermann 1, No. 1 (1916), verso Symbole der Zeit I by Max Slevogt. Printed by Paul Cassirer.