European Masters: Audioguide

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  1. 21.06.2010

    Stop 22: The Expressionist Tradition

    Paula Modersohn-Becker was an important early Expressionist. She was a member of the Worpswede Colony, a group of artists that had retreated to the northern German countryside to paint landscapes.

  2. 21.06.2010

    Stop 21: Städel: The Nazis and Degenerate Art

    The Städel Museum had amassed an incredible collection of Modern Art. However, under Nazi rule, the Städel’s collection was declared ‘degenerate’ and decimated.

  3. 21.06.2010

    Stop 20: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Freedom in our work and in our lives

    The Bridge formed in Dresden in 1905. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a driving force of the group, which renounced earlier traditions of art.

  4. 21.06.2010

    Stop 19: The Fragmentation of the Avant-Garde

    Throughout last century, different groups of artists across Europe were experimenting with bold ideas and forms. Max Ernst was a Dadaist and Surrealist, and Paul Klee part of the Bauhaus movement.

  5. 21.06.2010

    Stop 18: The Bridge and The Blue Rider

    The proto-Modernist movement, the Blaue Reiter group was interested in Cubism and Abstraction. It included Wassily Kandinsky and August Macke, Franz Marc, Alexej Jawlensky and Paul Klee.

  6. 21.06.2010

    Stop 16: Max Beckmann Part 2

    Beckmann’s outlook and style were profoundly affected by his experience of World War I. His paintings are tense and angular, conveying his sense of disquiet and anxiety.

  7. 21.06.2010

    Stop 17: Max Beckmann Part 3

    Declared a degenerate artist by the Nazis, Max Beckmann was banned from exhibiting. His later works are full of the dread that settled around Europe during the war years.

  8. 21.06.2010

    Stop 15: Max Beckmann Part 1

    Max Beckmann was a hugely influential German painter. A young prodigy, he dismissed Expressionism and abstraction and insisted that art be an unsentimental look at contemporary life.

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