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  • Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Kandinsky

    Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was born in Moscow and emigrated at the age of thirty to Munich to study painting. In 1902 he met artist Gabriele Münter with whom he had a relationship until the outbreak of the First World War. Between 1908 and 1914…

  • The Blue Rider Almanac (detail) Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)

    The group was a loose association of highly individualistic artists, of varying international backgrounds. Faced with a rapidly changing industrialised Germany, they yearned for a more spiritual alternative. The name and the symbol of the group was…

  • 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…

  • New Walk Museum Expressionism: The Total Artwork Gallery

    Leicester Museum & Art Gallery We are proud to host the largest collection of German Expressionist artwork in the UK, and with support from Arts Council England have re-displayed the collection. Our new gallery uses cutting edge museum design…

  • 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…

  • Bathing Woman by the Waldsee Adolf Erbsloh

    Adolf Erbslöh was born in 1881 in New York, USA, and died in 1947 in Irschenhausen, Germany. He spent the first few years of his life in New York, where his father was on business, but the family returned to Germany several years later. Erbslöh…

  • Alexej von Jawlensky, Self-Portrait 1912. From the collection of Austrian Gallery Belvedere. Alexej von Jawlensky

    Alexej von Jawlensky was born in 1867 in Torzhok, NW of Moscow, Russia, and died in 1941 in Wiesbaden, Germany. Jawlensky and Marianne Werefkin came from Russia to Munich in 1896 and soon became friends with Kandinsky. Influenced by Van Gogh and…

  • Hoarfrost or Frost Alexander Kanoldt

    Alexander Kanoldt was born 29 September 1881 in Karlsruhe, Germany and died in 1939. Kanoldt went to Munich in 1908 and joined with the progressive artists who formed the New Artists Association. When the Association split over Kandinsky’s move to…

  • Paul Klee, photographed in 1911 by Alexander Eliasberg. Paul Klee

    Paul Klee was born on 18th December, 1879 in Bern, Switzerland and died on 29th June, 1940 in Muralto, Switzerland. The Swiss painter and etcher settled in Munich in 1906. He exhibited in the second Blue Rider exhibition in 1912 and cemented his…

  • 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…

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