GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM FEATURED PORTFOLIOS
Featured Portfolios
Ernst Barlach
The Dead Day
1912 (prints executed 1910–11)In Ernst Barlach's play Der tote Tag (The dead day), a mother's selfishness plunges the world… More »
Ernst Barlach
The Transformations of God
(1922, prints executed c. 1919/21)Ernst Barlach made these prints to cope with his grief over the death of his mother… More »
Max Beckmann
Annual Fair
(1921, published 1922)Max Beckmann imagines the world as a carnival in this portfolio… More »
Max Beckmann
Day and Dream
(1946)Max Beckmann blended the real and the imaginary in his final print cycle, Day and Dream… More »
Max Beckmann
Faces
1919 (prints executed: 1915 –18)The nineteen prints in Max Beckmann's portfolio Gesichter (Faces) do not present… More »
Max Beckmann
Hell
1919 (prints executed: 1918 –19)In the portfolio Hölle (Hell), Max Beckmann journeys, Virgil-like, through Berlin… More »
Max Beckmann
Six Lithographs to the New Testament
(1911)Max Beckmann examines Jesus's human qualities—his inner strength and charisma… More »
Max Beckmann
Trip to Berlin 1922
1922As depicted in Max Beckmann's portfolio Berliner Reise 1922 (Trip to Berlin 1922)… More »
Lovis Corinth
Classical Legends
1919Lovis Corinth began work on Antike Legende (Classical legends) during the last few months… More »
Lovis Corinth
Compositions
(1921–22)Lovis Corinth reworked ten of his paintings as prints for this portfolio, which represents… More »
Lovis Corinth
Dance of Death
(1922, prints executed: 1921)In Totentanz (Dance of death) Lovis Corinth modernizes a theme that German… More »
Lovis Corinth
The Queen of Golconda
(1920/21)Lovis Corinth opens this portfolio, based on an eighteenth-century love story… More »
Lovis Corinth
The Robbers
(1923)In these prints, Lovis Corinth illustrates Friedrich Schiller's play Die Räuber… More »
Lovis Corinth
William Tell
(1923–24, published 1925)Lovis Corinth often cloaked allusions to contemporary politics in historical dress… More »
Otto Dix
Nine Woodcuts
(1922, prints executed: 1919–20)Otto Dix aggressively implies in this portfolio that sex is the force driving all men… More »
Otto Dix
The War
1924 (prints executed 1923–24)Appearing ten years after the conflict began, Otto Dix's monumental portfolio… More »
Lyonel Feininger
Ten Woodcuts by Lyonel Feininger
1941 (prints executed: 1918–20)These ten prints feature subjects that captivated Lyonel Feininger throughout his career… More »
George Grosz
The First George Grosz Portfolio
1916/1917Shortly after his discharge from the German Army in May 1915, George Grosz… More »
George Grosz
God with Us
1920 (prints executed 1918–19)George Grosz takes aim at the stupidity and brutality of the German military… More »
George Grosz
In the Shadows
1921This portfolio focuses on the lives of Weimar Germany's forgotten citizens… More »
Erich Heckel
Eleven Woodcuts
1921 (prints executed: 1913–19)These eleven woodcuts, made after the dissolution of the Brücke group in 1913… More »
Walter Helbig
16 Woodcuts
1926 (prints executed 1911–25)Walter Helbig's woodcuts present idyllic views of nature, village life, bathers… More »
Alexei Jawlensky
Heads
(1922)Alexei Jawlensky's portfolio of six lithographs addresses the artist's main subject… More »
Vasily Kandinsky
Small Worlds
1922In Kleine Welten (Small worlds) Vasily Kandinsky demonstrates the different… More »
Vasily Kandinsky
Verses Without Words
(1903)In the portfolio Stichi bez slov (Verses without words) Vasily Kandinsky… More »
Vasily Kandinsky
Xylographs
1909 (prints executed 1907)Maidens in peasant costumes dance in forests outside of medieval cities… More »
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Brücke 1910
1910Between 1906 and 1912 the Brücke group sent an annual portfolio of prints to its… More »
Max Klinger
Dramas, Opus IX
first published 1883 (prints executed 1881–1883)Max Klinger's Dramen (Dramas) explores the human toll of Wilhelmine Germany's… More »
Max Klinger
A Glove, Opus VI
1881 (prints executed 1880)The central preoccupations in Max Klinger's printmaking career—love, death, and fantasy… More »
Max Klinger
Intermezzos, Opus IV
(first published 1881)The sea threatens to sweep away a young woman. A fallen rider is trapped… More »
Oskar Kokoschka
The Bound Columbus
1916 (executed 1913)In this portfolio Oskar Kokoschka is Christopher Columbus charting the… More »
Oskar Kokoschka
Jerusalem Faces
(1973–74, prints executed 1973)In April 1973 Oskar Kokoschka visited Jerusalem, where he sketched six… More »
Oskar Kokoschka
O Eternity - Thou Word of Thunder (Bach Cantata)
1916 (executed 1914)Through these eleven illustrations of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata no. 60… More »
Käthe Kollwitz
Death
(executed 1934/1937)Death was one of the most persistent themes in Käthe Kollwitz's work… More »
Käthe Kollwitz
War
(executed 1934/1937)In 1919, Käthe Kollwitz began work on Krieg (War), her response… More »
Max Pechstein
The Lord's Prayer
1921Promising forgiveness and deliverance from evil, the Lord's Prayer resonated powerfully… More »
Egon Schiele
The Graphic Work of Egon Schiele
1922Egon Schiele here explored his typical genres, nudes and psychologically… More »
Oskar Schlemmer
Play on Heads
(1923, prints executed c. 1920)Spiel mit Köpfe (Play on heads) presents eight variations on a main theme… More »
Various
Masters' Portfolio of the Staatliches Bauhaus
1923The range of approaches in this portfolio evidences the lack of a single Bauhaus… More »
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