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  • Hess Shoes Advert 'A New Way To Give Pleasure' The Story of the Hess Family

    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…

  • Portrait of Alfred Hess Portrait of Alfred Hess

    Pechstein joined the Brücke group of painters in 1906. With Heckel he was one of many artists who received hospitality in the Hess house. For the Brücke artists printmaking was a major means of expression. Here Pechstein uses the woodcut to portray…

  • Thanks in Colours Thanks in Colours *

    Original Title Dank in Farben aus einem Kunstlergastebuch Year of Production 1957 Artist Various Medium Book Materials Paper Dimensions height: 19cm; width 12.2 cm Credit Line Donated by Mr John Langton Copyright We have attempted to…

  • Portrait of the collector Alfred Hess Portrait of the Collector Alfred Hess

    Watercolour, 1923.

  • Behind the Church The Origins of Leicester's Expressionist Collection

    By the late 1930s a progressive art collecting policy had been established at Leicester by Art Assistant Arthur C. Sewter, with contemporary British and continental (including German) art being purchased. In 1936, Sewter’s exhibition of Contemporary…

  • German Expressionism Catalogue

    Leicester’s internationally acclaimed collection of German Expressionist art, and the eighty-year history of its development, are being celebrated in a new book. ‘German Expressionism: The Leicester Museums and Galleries’ Collection’ presents a full…

  • March to the Front or The Three German Soldiers Curt Ehrhardt

    Curt Ehrhardt was born 29 June 1895 in Saxony and died in 1972 in Schwarz, Hesse, Germany. In 1916 Ehrhardt visited the travelling exhibition “Der Sturm” in Berlin and thus saw works by Picasso, Schwitters and Marc. This caused him to get in touch…

  • Christian Rohlfs, 1921 Christian Rohlfs

    Christian Rohlfs (1849-1938) was born in Nierendorf and studied first in Berlin and then in Weimar where he met Liebermann in 1874. In 1901, he left Weimar and, following an invitation by the collector Karl Ernst Osthaus, went to Hagen where he…

  • Witch's Ride Independent Expressionist Artists

    Many developed a radical, modernist approach, placing them firmly within the Expressionist canon of work. Many had found initial success through the Berlin Secession, the breakaway progressive faction at the turn of the century led by Max…

  • Trevor Thomas Portrait Trevor Thomas (1907 – 1993)

    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…

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