The brilliantly colored paintings of the Blue Rider artists, a group of Expressionist painters centered in Munich, are rightly famous everywhere. This book tells their story and includes some of the most beautiful paintings produced by Wassily Kandinsky and his friends Alexej Jawlensky, Paul Klee, August Macke, Franz Marc, and...more
German Expressionism, one of the most significant movements of early European modernism, was an enormously powerful element in Germany's cultural life from the end of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Third Reich. While the movement embraced such diverse artists as E. L. Kirchner, Wassily Kandinsky, Käthe Kollwitz, and George Grosz,...more
The notion of utopia exists in every culture, capturing shared dreams and common goals. This book--prepared to accompany the exhibition Expressionist Utopias mounted at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1993--explores how the optimistic themes of utopia and fantasy sustained faith among artists and architects in the power of art...more
The German artistic revolution known as expressionism is the subject of this large-format, sumptuously illustrated Spanish-language entry in the Big Art series. The colorful survey samples all of the variations on the movement, from the Brücke Group to the Viennese school, and showcases its greatest artists, including Marc, Kandinsky, Kirchner,...more