GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
This website documents The Museum of Modern Art's extraordinary collection of more than 3,000 Expressionist prints, drawings, paintings, sculptures, illustrated books, and periodicals, exploring the various artists, themes, and techniques associated with the major modernist movement that developed in Germany and Austria during the early decades of the 20th century.
Erich Heckel
Kneeling Nudes
(1910)
Emil Nolde
Young Couple
(1913)
Erich Heckel
Dancers
(1911), dated 1910
Erich Heckel
Portrait of a Man
(1919)
Emil Nolde
Prophet
(1912)
Käthe Kollwitz
The Volunteers (plate 2) from War
(1921–22, published 1923)
Maps
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Chronology
Kandinsky paints first Improvisations
Heckel, Kirchner, and Pechstein work closely together at the Moritzburg ponds ...
Premiere of Kokoschka's one-act play Murderer, Hope of Women at the Gartentheater of the Internationale Kunstschau ...
Artists
Emil Nolde
German, 1867–1956
Painter, printmaker, watercolorist. First trained as a woodcarver; later studied painting ...
The Collection
This website is dedicated to the Museum's rich collection of German Expressionist art. Defining Expressionism in broad terms, this collection comprises approximately 3,200 works, including some 2,800 prints (644 of which are in periodicals in the Museum Library), 275 drawings, 32 posters, and 40 paintings and sculptures. The preponderance of prints in the collection parallels the crucial position of printmaking within the movement as a whole.
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Page through 27 books that feature illustrations by Expressionist artists. Learn more about each one.
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New videos demonstrate the processes involved in woodcut, intaglio, and lithography, three printmaking techniques used by the Expressionists.
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