The Austrian director Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) transformed theatre. Reinhardt introduced new and experimental approaches to stage design, lighting, costume, voice, movement and music. His often spectacular theatrical productions demonstrated the…

Münter met the Danish writer, Anna Roslund, shortly after her move to Copenhagen from Sweden in 1917. In Sweden she had renewed her interest in Matisse and abandoned her earlier Bavarian primitivism. Deep in thought, the stylish, pipe-smoking writer…

Poster for an exhibition of Oskar Kokoschka's work held in Zurich in 1923. This bold colourful poster, possessing a raw visual energy, announces Kokoschka’s exhibition at the Wolfsberg Art Gallery, Zurich, during September and October 1923. His face…

The original woodcut is 'Portrait of a Man' (1919) Through the medium of this exhibition poster, we can see the expressive power of Heckel’s self-portrait of 1919. The colour scheme and bold woodcut technique marks this portrait as one of the…

On the reverse side of this work is the 'Portrait of a Bearded Man' lithograph by Erich Heckel (1907).

Includes four portraits: From right to left 1. Hugo Ball 2. Emmy Hennings 3. Walter Serner 4. Hans Arp.

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…

Ernst Neuschul was a painter of the Neue Sachlichkeit, or ‘New Objectivity movement, which arose in post WW1 Germany. Prior to this between 1919-1926 his interests included Freudian psychoanalysis, sexual liberation, spiritualism and yoga. During…

From about 1931 onwards, Laserstein began to adopt a looser, more fluid technique, her brushstrokes more impressionistic. This portrait of Laserstein’s close friend and favourite model Gertrud Rose (Traute Rose) is relaxed and informal. The image of…