5/2/13 Study Set (III)

German Expressionism

(in correspondence with lecture guide/notes)

Terms:

Worpswede
  -  Artist's Colony
  -  Northern Germany, near the town of Bremen
Die Brücke
  -  "The Bridge"
  -  Dresden and Berlin, Germany
  -  Edvard Munch's "influence"
  -  Erich Heckel, Karl  Schmidt-Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl, Otto Müller, Max Pechstein
Carl Einstein
  -  Negerplastik (African Sculpture), 1915
Der Blaue Reiter
  -  "The Blue Rider"
  -  Munich, Germany
Thannhauser Gallery
Gabriel Munter, 1877-1962
Wassily Kandinsky
  -  Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1911
Arnold Schonberg
  -  Atonal music
Synthestesia
Murnau and hinterglasmalerei (painting behind glass)
  -  Bavarian glass painting technique
Theosophy and Madame Blavatsky

Artists and Works:

Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1876-1907

Self-Portrait with an Amber Necklace, 1906

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Käthe Kollwitz, 1867-1945

Rest in the Peace of His Hands, 1936

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Max Beckmann, 1884-1950

 Departure, 1932-1933

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Ernst Barlach, 1870-1938

 Singing Man, 1928

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938

 Self-Portrait with Model, 1910-1926

Street, Berlin, 1913

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Emil Nolde, 1867-1956

The Last Supper, 1909

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Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944

 Composition IV, 1911

Black Lines, 1913

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Franz Marc, 1880-1916

Blue Horses, 1911

Animal's Fate, 1913

Quotes:

Excerpts from a letter to Herma Becker by Paula Modersohn-Becker, 21/4/1905

"As soon as I had Otto over the border the iron band that had clamped around his sad and grieving heart broke in two. He was very jealous of Paris, French art, French nonchalance, the Boulevard Michel, the Bulgarians, etc. He imagined that I only preferred to stay in Paris and though nothing at all of Worpswede... I think that you and I will someday want to go back to Paris again together. Have you already seen the Salon? Please do send me a catalog, the illustrated one if they have it. And, then please find out about the prices of the following magazines; I very much want to have some of them.
     1. Noa-Noa by Gauguin, Edition La Plume.
     2. The Biography of Gauguin, 1903.
     3. Study about Gauguin in the Revue Encyclopedique, 1904,..."

Programme of the Brücke Artists, printed as a woodcut broadsheet in 1906

"With faith in progress and in a new generation of creators and spectators we call together all youth. As youth, we carry the future and want to create for ourselves freedom of life and of movement against the long-established older forces. Everyone who reproduces that which drives him to creation with directness and authenticity belongs to us."

Emil Nolde

"Primordial peoples live in their nature, are one with it and are a part of the entire universe."

Wassily Kandinsky in referece to his fascination with Russian and Bavarian folk art

"I learned not to look at a picture from outside, but to move within the picture, to live in the picture."

Wassily Kandinsky

"One thing became clear to me - that objectiveness, the depiction of objects, needed no place in my paintings and was indeed harmful to them."

"The harmony of color and form must be based solely upon the principle of the proper contact with the human soul."