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  • Red Woman Collecting Policy

    Collecting Policy The Leicester collection continues to grow with new gifts, loans and occasional purchases. Like all Accredited museums, the service is guided by a formal Collections Development Policy. The development of the Expressionism…

  • Soldier in the Asylum II 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…

  • Seated Woman Hubert Berke

    Hubert Berke was born 22 January 1908 in Buer, Westfalla, Germany and died 24 November 1979 in Cologne. Berke was one of the few German artists active after World War II who was successful both as an abstract and as a representational artist. He…

  • Self-Portrait 1939 Self-portrait 1939

    Woodcut, 1939.

  • Self Portrait Self-portrait

    Oil, 1943.

  • Laburnum and May Trees Laburnum and May Trees

    Painted in 1941 from drawings made in the garden of a house in Campden Hill, London. The additional images show a letter about this artwork from Mrs Charlotte Bloch, the wife of the artist. Mrs Bloch give context and interesting details about the…

  • Despair Despair

    The female figure with her raised arms clutching her head reflects the emotional state of Klopfleisch at the time, who had been interned on the Isle of Man in 1940-41. Whilst on the island she had suffered a miscarriage. This sculpture was a follow…

  • Despair Despair (plasticine)

    This sculpture can be explored using our 360° interactive viewer.