Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Anti-bourgeois, anti-industrial, anti-imperial: German Expressionism

Anti-bourgeois, anti-industrial and anti-imperial, German Expressionism started at the dawn of the 20th century and ended, in an official, nationalist sense, with the Nazis’ “Degenerate Art” exhibition of 1937 (an event that still defines the movement as art that Hitler hated, to paraphrase the scholar Pamela Kort). In between, it encompassed a cataclysmic war and … Continue reading →