GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Featured Illustrated Books
Ernst Barlach
The Head
1919For this illustrated version of a poem by Russian émigré Reinhold von Walter… More »
Max Beckmann
City Night
1921While convalescing in Frankfurt after a mental breakdown during World War I… More »
Max Beckmann
The Duchess
1918Beckmann's six drypoints loosely follow the dreamlike, erotic tales… More »
Max Beckmann
Ebbi
1924In six penetrating drypoints, Beckmann drew out the conflicting emotions… More »
Max Beckmann
Man Is Not a Domestic Animal
1937In Stephan Lackner's play Der Mensch ist kein Haustier (Man is not a domesticated animal)… More »
Lovis Corinth
The Book of Judith
1910 (prints executed 1909)Lovis Corinth combined naturalism with expressive evocations… More »
Lovis Corinth
Collected Writings
1920Gathering Lovis Corinth's articles from various art periodicals and Berlin newspapers… More »
Carl Otto Czeschka
The Nibelungs
(1920)Carl Otto Czeschka's eight double-page illustrations to Franz Keim's… More »
Vasily Kandinsky
Sounds
1913Vasily Kandinsky's self-described "musical album," Klänge (Sounds)… More »
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
The Canoness and Death
1913Alfred Döblin's novella Das Stiftsfräulein und der Tod (The canoness and death)… More »
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Off the Main Road
1923Using the woodcut technique, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner created twenty-two illustrations… More »
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Shadow of Life
1924Ernst Ludwig Kirchner illustrated the 1924 reprint of Umbra vitae… More »
Paul Klee
Potsdamer Platz or The Nights of the New Messiah. Ecstatic Visions
1919In ten frenzied illustrations, Paul Klee captured the energy, violence, and chaos… More »
Oskar Kokoschka
The Dreaming Boys
1917 (prints executed 1907–08)In 1907, Fritz Waerndorfer, the financial backer of the Wiener Werkstätte… More »
Oskar Kokoschka
The Great Wall of China
1914 (prints executed 1913)In 1909, Austrian writer Karl Kraus published an essay in the Viennese journal… More »
Oskar Kokoschka
Job
1917 (prints executed 1916/17)Hiob is a tale of the combative relationship between the sexes… More »
Oskar Kokoschka
Murderer, Hope of Women
(1916, drawings executed 1910)Set in a barbaric antiquity, and against the backdrop of two chanting… More »
Oskar Kokoschka
Murderer, Hope of Women
(1916, drawings executed 1910)Set in a barbaric antiquity, and against the backdrop of two chanting… More »
Alfred Kubin
Again and Again
1937During his long and productive career, Alfred Kubin made drawings and lithographs… More »
Alfred Kubin
A New Dance of Death
1947 (reproduced drawings executed 1938)Reprising a theme he had first addressed during World War I, Alfred Kubin… More »
Max Pechstein
The Samland Ode
1918 (prints executed 1917)In 1918, Wolfgang Gurlitt published Die Samländische Ode (The Samland ode)… More »
Max Pechstein
Yali and His White Wife
1923Written in 1914 by Willy Seidel and later illustrated by Max Pechstein… More »
Various Artists
Cabaret Fledermaus
1907The program for the first season of the Cabaret Fledermaus in Vienna… More »
Various Artists
German Printmakers of Our Time
1920Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German printmakers of our time) brings together… More »
Various Artists
KG Brücke
1910This catalogue for the Brücke's breakthrough exhibition in September 1910… More »
Various Artists
The Print Yearbook
1920The first and only volume of Das graphische Jahrbuch (The print yearbook)… More »
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