This painting, originally titled The Levelling, was originally thought to predate the First World War. However it was re-titled when two woodcuts and a drawing, all dated 1918 and all closely resembling the painting were discovered in the Ludwig von…

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…