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Apocalyptic Vision
This is the earliest of Meidner’s apocalyptic landscapes, a series of paintings he produced in his Berlin studio during the summer of 1912. These paintings of burning cities and fleeing people, coming just before the outbreak of the First World War…
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Red Woman
Red Woman was one of Marc’s last paintings containing the human figure and reflects the humanistic idea of man’s interrelationship with nature. A ‘primitive’ woman, untouched by the corrupting influence of civilisation, is harmoniously absorbed into…
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Portrait of Anna Roslund
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…
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Messiah
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…
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Fehrbellinerplatz, Berlin
One of five Berlin street scenes Bloch painted before he left Germany in 1934. The smoke rising from the crematorium appears prominent and threatening, framed as it is by the network of wires and poles of the almost deserted square. (Bloch nicknamed…
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Breakdown
This painting, originally titled The Levelling, was originally thought to predate the First World War. However it was re-titled when two woodcuts and a drawing, all dated 1918 and all closely resembling the painting were discovered in the Ludwig von…
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Laburnum and May Trees
Painted in 1941 from drawings made in the garden of a house in Campden Hill, London. The additional images show a letter about this artwork from Mrs Charlotte Bloch, the wife of the artist. Mrs Bloch give context and interesting details about the…
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Autumn Evening, Klotzsche
This painting, depicting a sunset scene with a factory worker returning from his shift, belongs to a highly significant series of paintings Felixmüller produced in the early 1920s. The artist’s brother was a mining engineer, and Felixmüller produced…
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Black Mother
Neuschul’s paintings of unemployed workers, Gypsies and black people provoked Goebbels into having his pictures vandalised in an exhibition in 1933. Neuschul portrays the breastfeeding mother with a monumental dignity, her watchful eyes indicating…
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Woman Applying Make-up
The image of the woman applying her make-up is a powerful one. Painted in Berlin at the height of the Weimar years, it gives an insight into the changing fortunes of young metropolitan working women who, in the mid-1920s were achieving greater…