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Soldier in the Madhouse II
In this haunting image Felixmuller shows a young soldier, driven to insanity through unending nightmares of conflict, his face a twisted mask of pain. Many young men returned from war with mental as well as physical scars, alienated from friends…
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Dona Nobis Pacem (Give Us Peace)
Title page from Der Bildermann 1, No. 18 (1916), verso Weihnacht by August Gaul. Give us Peace, (Dona Nobis Pacem), from the Agnus Dei in the Latin mass. Printed in the Christmas issue, a sorrowing Madonna ‘clothed with the sun’ floats high above…
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The Fugitive
Kubin produced this work possibly in response to the horrors of the First World War and its devastating consequences for thousands of young men. A struggling man is restrained by others whilst an excited barking dog looks on. A distant figure…
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Visions Plate 12: The Great Allies (Three Warlike Nations in Prayer)
Plate 12 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17. The view through an open doorway reveals warlike nations in prayer, yet in fact enemies. Various costumes represent the different countries present. Above the bowed, kneeling figures is a bank of clouds upon which…
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Three Nudes on a Beach
The Brücke artists often holidayed together in the summer, sketching their models from life outdoors, in the woods or on the beach. Although produced after Pechstein’s expulsion from Die Brücke in 1912, this work symbolises an important Brücke…
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From a Modern Dance of Death
War is depicted as a massive giant poised above a mountain of skeletons, ending life with a sledgehammer blow. Barlach’s title looks back to the medieval theme ‘A Dance of Death’ in which living and dead both join a procession or dance, portraying…
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Man on a Plain
The taut, attenuated forms of this self-portrait and the pulsating lines coming from the sky reflect the oppressiveness and strain of the war years. The composition has been compared to Munch’s lithograph of The Scream of 1895 where the…
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Visions - Title Page
Slevogt was commissioned as a war artist, but, instead of producing a folio of morale raising propaganda, he produced a universal condemnation of war after returning from the front, which was condemned and censored by the authorities. He produced a…
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Visions Plate 13: Pegasus Forced into Military Service
Plate 13 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17. In this powerful image, Slevogt depicts the mythical winged horse Pegasus stripped of its heroic status and power. The same creature that Perseus rode to rescue Andromeda is now wretched, its proud head hung low…
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Visions Plate 17: The Suicide Machine
Plate 17 from ‘Visions’, 1916-17. The transformation of the Great War into a brutal mechanised slaughter is given a surreal and ironic twist. Civilians terrified by the prospect of war can line up in a tree-lined boulevard, pay a coin into a…