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  1. 06/21/2010

    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.

    3 min

  2. 06/21/2010

    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.

    4 min

  3. 06/21/2010

    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 min

  4. 06/21/2010

    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.

    2 min

  5. 06/21/2010

    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.

    2 min

  6. 06/21/2010

    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.

    3 min

  7. 06/21/2010

    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.

    2 min

  8. 06/21/2010

    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.

    4 min
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