The front cover of a 4 page news print paper. See detail images for other pages. Kollwitz was at her strongest producing powerful images protesting against social injustice and oppression of all kinds. The despair of the mother who cannot feed her…

Heinrich Simon was Editor-in-Chief of the Frankfurter Zeitung, a liberal and democratic newspaper free of party influence. The paper championed modern art, poetry and drama. In 1931, he said: “It is good to remember that time in which the advocates…

Nolde had a complete mastery of the watercolour medium. The head, artificially lit from below, appears to have an independent life of its own as it floats into the top left-hand corner of the paper. While the slash of red across the mouth indicates…

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…

This magnificent woodcut from 1914 shows Kirchner’s friend Gerda Schilling with other figures seated in a boat with great black sails, as it moves past the distant shoreline of Fehmarn. The island in the Baltic had provided Kirchner with a complete…

Max Beckmann (1884-1950) was born in Leipzig and studied at the Weimar Academy before he moved to Berlin in 1905, where he joined the “Berlin Sezession” in 1907 and met Liebermann, Corinth and Slevogt. During the Berlin period, he founded the…

Original Title Grosse Deutsche Kunstaustellung 1937 Im Haus der Deutschen Kunst zu Munchen Year of Production 1937 Publisher Verlag Knorr & Hirth G.m.b.H., Munchen Medium Book Materials Paper, ink Dimensions height: 21 cm; width: 15…

Year of production 1944 Publisher Leicester Museum Service Medium Leaflet Materials Paper, ink Credit Line Presented by Peter Romilly Dimensions height: 20 cm; width: 12.6 cm   Exhibition catalogue of 'Mid-European Art', February 5-27…

Original Title Licht und Schatten Year of Production 1911 Artist Hanns von Gumppenberg Medium Magazine Materials Paper Dimensions height: 34.5 cm; width: 27 cm Credit Line Gift of Michael Brooks   Number 1 1911 Issue 2. It was a…

Full Title Lady Hamilton or the Posturing of Emma or From Housemaid to Nelsons bit of crackling. A fantastic and romantic travesty by Alfred Richard Meyer. Most industriously fleshed out by George Grosz. Original Title Lady Hamilton oder Posen…