Mixed Media, 1933.

One of five Berlin street scenes Bloch painted before he left Germany in 1934. The smoke rising from the crematorium appears prominent and threatening, framed as it is by the network of wires and poles of the almost deserted square. (Bloch nicknamed…

Heinrich Richter-Berlin was born on April 23, 1884 in Berlin, Germany, and died on January 26, 1981 in Berlin, Germany. He was a German painter and printmaker.

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…

Pen and wash.

The additional image shows the grant agreement that was reached between Leicester Museums and the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1976. The V&A offered to pay 50% towards the purchase price of the artwork.

Front cover of the guest book of Alfred and Tekla Hess. All the artists who stayed with Alfred and Tekla Hess were encouraged to add a sketch or poem to the visitor’s books. Many did, and the originals are now in the Bauhaus-Archiv Museum, Berlin.…

Erich Heckel was a painter, printmaker and sculptor, well known for being one of the co-founders of the Expressionist group Die Brücke, along with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.  A keen and experimental printmaker as well as a…

Carl Ludwig Elias was the son of the distinguished art critic, Dr Julius Elias, who did much to promote a true understanding of French Impressionism in Germany. He was a lawyer in Berlin and emigrated to Norway when the Nazis came to power. He was…

The agitated lines and distorted forms give the impression of a rapidly executed sketch of the three female figures momentarily pausing in movement. Kirchner was a brilliant draughtsman who continually sketched from life. Kirchner was the dynamic…