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Title
The Pleading (Die Flehende), from O Eternity—thou thundering word (O Ewigkeit—du Donnerwort), Bach Cantata (Bachkantate) series
Artist
Oskar Kokoschka
Physical Description
In the foreground, illuminated white, a woman, her long hair hanging down her back, kneels and gazes upward, her arms extended in front of her, her hands pointing skyward. The sky is nearly all dark, with a full moon appearing in the center top of the image.
Artist Life Dates
1886 - 1980
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1914
Accession Number
2007/2.121
Medium and Support
lithograph on laid cream paper mounted on cardboard
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism
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Title
Am Wasser (At the water)
Artist
Max Pechstein
Physical Description
Print depicting two nude males crouching with their back to the viewer while looking out over a body of water
Artist Life Dates
1881 - 1955
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1907
Accession Number
1994/2.10
Medium and Support
woodcut on thin, slightly textured cream Japan paper
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German Expressionism
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Title
Portrait of Zeretelli II
Artist
Max Beckmann
Physical Description
Print featuring the head of a Caucasian man with short dark hair. Text written along a diagonal in lower right.
Artist Life Dates
1884-1950
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1923
Accession Number
1949/1.185
Medium and Support
lithograph on paper
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German Expressionism
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Title
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God (Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott), illustration #29 from Timotheus Klein's Martin Luther (Berlin: Fritz Gurlitt Verlag, 1920-21)
Artist
Lovis Corinth
Physical Description
An approaching army in the foreground, with pikes or lances held in fists. A mounted soldier in the background carries a lance. At the top of the image is the phrase, left to right: "EINE feste Burg ist unser GOTT" — the first line to Martin Luther's hymn, "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God."
Artist Life Dates
1858 - 1925
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1920
Accession Number
2007/2.108
Medium and Support
lithograph on handmade beige paper
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism
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Title
Portrait of Arnold Schönberg
Artist
Felix Albrecht Harta
Physical Description
Minimal line drawing presents a 3/4 profile of man, with right ear, a tuft of hair, mouth, nose, full right eye, partial left eye, eyebrows, eye lashes, and minimal chin.
Artist Life Dates
(1884 - 1967)
Century
20th century
Accession Number
2007/2.112
Medium and Support
graphite on beige wove paper
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German Expressionism
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Title
Kind zwischen Bäumen (Child Among Trees)
Artist
Paula Modersohn-Becker
Physical Description
Drawing featuring a small child seated with its hands in its lap stares out at the viewer amid a forest of birch trees.
Artist Life Dates
1876 - 1907
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1905
Accession Number
2000/2.176
Medium and Support
black chalk on medium thick cream laid paper
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism
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Title
Nude with Arms Overhead
Artist
Oskar Kokoschka
Physical Description
Nude woman in 3/4 profile from navel up, facing right, with eyes closed and arms resting on head. Right hand visible near left elbow.
Artist Life Dates
1886 - 1980
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1934
Accession Number
2007/2.91
Medium and Support
blue crayon on beige laid paper
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism
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Title
Actress
Artist
Emil Nolde
Physical Description
Abstract portrait of an actress, formed by abstract pools of watercolor with only slight detailing laid in after to suggest a bowed head and curved neck.
Artist Life Dates
1867-1956
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1912
Accession Number
2007/2.102
Medium and Support
watercolor on brown wove medium-weight paper
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism
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Title
Self-portrait
Artist
Käthe Kollwitz
Physical Description
Three-quarter profile view of a woman’s face
Artist Life Dates
1867 - 1945
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1924
Accession Number
1983/2.42
Medium and Support
lithograph on paper
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German Expressionism
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Title
Female Nude Lying on Stomach, study for Female Nude from the Back (Weiblicher Rückenakt), 1911
Artist
Christian Rohlfs
Physical Description
Figure study of female nude lying on her stomach, from a 3/4 side position of artist. Woman's head is in top left, her torso at lower right of page. Woman's left elbow is crooked, pointing toward viewer. Brown tempera accents the body, while green tempera accents the surface below. Woman's left breast is visible.
Artist Life Dates
1849-1938
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1911
Accession Number
2007/2.107
Medium and Support
tempera and ink on brown wove paper
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism
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Title
Nude Woman
Artist
Herbert Boeckl
Physical Description
Sitting frontal female nude turned 1/2 to right profile, hands on lap. Rough marks for face and head angles. Rough linear shading for background, seat, and floor.
Artist Life Dates
1894 - 1966
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1925
Accession Number
2007/2.122
Medium and Support
charcoal on paper
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism
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Title
Holy Anne with Two Others (Hl. Anna selbtritt)
Artist
Otto Dix
Physical Description
Three center female figures with exposed breasts and halos. Entire picture composed of overlapping U- or V-shaped charcoal strokes.
Artist Life Dates
1891 - 1969
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1914
Accession Number
2007/2.92
Medium and Support
charcoal on ready brown wove paper
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism
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Title
Crucifixion
Artist
Oskar Kokoschka
Physical Description
A traditional crucifixion scene, with Christ on the cross, and Mary and John at his feet gazing upward. The background is a series of watercolor washes, and parts of the figures, particularly most of the sitting figure of John, is "inked" in over the background washes. A goblet (the cup of Christ) is inked in at the foot of the cross. Signed by the artist, b.r., followed by "VI - 58."
Artist Life Dates
1886 - 1980
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1958
Accession Number
2007/2.90
Medium and Support
watercolor on paper
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism
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Title
Handstand
Artist
Erich Heckel
Physical Description
Print featuring a stage with a figure of a man with his feet touching his head while doing a handstand on a small table flanked by two chairs. His large shadow is cast on the wall behind him. The head and hands of a conductor are visible in the lower right.
Artist Life Dates
1883-1970
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1916
Accession Number
1956/1.20
Medium and Support
lithograph on paper
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German Expressionism
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Title
Verzweiflung (Despair)
Artist
Emil Nolde
Physical Description
Print featuring a image of a small boy and a bearded man standing at right near a body of water on left. Small bush at left and trees in the distance.
Artist Life Dates
1867-1956
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1906
Accession Number
1965/2.72
Medium and Support
woodcut on paper
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Style/Group/Movement
German expressionism
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Title
In the Studio (Erna and Guest)
Artist
Ernst Kirchner
Physical Description
Three figures with canted tabletop set with teapot, carafe, and dishes. A nude figure stands on the right side of the image, representing the ethnographic statue that the artist admired and kept in his studio. Artist's sketch from life; Kirchner developed a rapid, stroke-oriented (as opposed to detail-oriented) sketch style.
Artist Life Dates
1880-1938
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1912-1913
Accession Number
2007/2.81
Medium and Support
ink on paper
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism / Die Brücke
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Title
Two Standing Nudes (Zwei Stehende Akte)
Artist
Ernst Kirchner
Physical Description
Two nude women looking at viewer, standing 1/4 turn to the left. Left-hand figure has right hand behind head, right elbow in air; she also has "paper-colored" hair. The figure on the right has hands on hips, elbows pointing out; left elbow a half-inch from right side of image. Right-hand figure has black hair. Two lines, center and on the right, suggest a ground/floor.
Artist Life Dates
1880-1938
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1909-1910
Accession Number
2007/2.93
Medium and Support
ink with ink wash on wove paper
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism / Die Brücke
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Title
Curved Railroad Tracks, Taunus (Bahnkurve Taunus), study for 1916 lithograph Landscape in Taunus (Landschaft im Taunus)
Artist
Ernst Kirchner
Physical Description
Train tracks curve from bottom center upward through center and off to the left; steaming locomotive pulling three freight cars past three storage sheds located in center of track loop. The background shows 3 mountain peaks, echoed in three clouds overhead. In the foreground, bottom corners are trees or other dense foliage. Artist's sketch from life; Kirchner developed a rapid, stroke-oriented (as opposed to detail-oriented) sketch style when out in the world.
Artist Life Dates
1880-1938
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1915
Accession Number
2007/2.103
Medium and Support
ink on artist board
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism / Die Brücke
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Title
Landscape
Artist
Erich Heckel
Physical Description
Ink line drawing of a landscape; gently rolling hills, divided into plots, fill the bottom two-thirds. Brush and/or trees form borders between plots. On the horizon trees, a windmill, and possible buildlings appear. The sky is dotted with clouds.
Artist Life Dates
1883-1970
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1919
Accession Number
2007/2.101
Medium and Support
graphite and ink on thin paper
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism / Die Brücke
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Title
Dancing Couple (Dodo and Partner)
Artist
Ernst Kirchner
Physical Description
A man and woman embrace in center; the man appears in a dress coat, the woman in a very large hat. She looks out at the viewer, while the man's head is turned to the left. Near the woman's left elbow is the outline of a suggested figure; another embracing couple is outlined to the right. The smaller figures suggest a perspective and size to the space, only suggested through brief lines and indistinct objects on the left. Artist's sketch from life; Kirchner developed a rapid, stroke-oriented (as opposed to detail-oriented) sketch style when out in the world.
Artist Life Dates
1880-1938
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1910
Accession Number
2007/2.82
Medium and Support
graphite on coated wove paper
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism / Die Brücke
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Title
In the Restaurant
Artist
Ernst Kirchner
Physical Description
Artist's sketch from life; Kirchner developed a rapid, stroke-oriented (as opposed to detail-oriented) sketch style when out in the world. Appears to be (though not with certainty) two men conversing on the left, a man accompanied by a woman in a very tall hatt in the center/center-right, and a figure in the far right bottom corner foreground leaning toward a surface (a piano? cleaning a table?). Background and tables are suggested with various lines, but unclear.
Artist Life Dates
1880-1938
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1903
Accession Number
2007/2.98
Medium and Support
ink on cream wove paper
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism / Die Brücke
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Title
The Left Thief (Der linke Schächer), preparatory drawing for "Golgotha" illustration in 20 Pictures of the Bible (20 Bilder zur Bibel), 1924
Artist
Alfred Kubin
Physical Description
A remake of the traditional Golgotha crucifixion scene. On the right is a horribly distended figure, hanging precariously from a cross that leans out toward the viewer. He represents the left thief, or, the bad thief. He looks out toward the viewer. At the bottom center is a hooded Mary figure, her face shielded from view. At the far left, another cross contains the regular, "sleeping" form of another crucified man, but without the distention of the first. On the ground between the two is the empty cross of Christ, marked by the INRI signed nailed into its top. Along the center of the image, in the background, a file of viewers move from right to left, one of whom carries a ladder. Clouds can be seen in the sky.
Artist Life Dates
1877-1959
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1924
Accession Number
2007/2.100
Medium and Support
pen and ink on laid paper
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism / Der Blaue Reiter
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Title
Black Magic / Continuation of Mynona's Gray Magic (Schwarze Magie / Fortsetzung von Mynonas grauer Magie)
Artist
Alfred Kubin
Physical Description
A heavily inked, multi-layered multi-media image with tinges of color. On the left hand side of image, an older gentleman in turban and beard can be made out. The background is dark inks and washes, bleeding into man's figure. Bottom edge of paper carries inscriptions from Kubin (handwriting matches other samples).
Artist Life Dates
1877-1959
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1954
Accession Number
2007/2.111
Medium and Support
pen + ink and watercolor and gouache on wove paper
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism / Der Blaue Reiter
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Title
The Omen (Das Zeichen)
Artist
Alfred Kubin
Physical Description
In the top left, a volcano erupts with flame shooting upward. Around the volcano, wrapping from the center of the image to the lower left corner, are dozens of individuals who seem to be fleeing the eruption. The larged figure is a mother, a baby in her arms and her mouth and eyes wide open. The entire drawing consists of lines, including shading, with underlying washes of color.
Artist Life Dates
1877-1959
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1912
Accession Number
2007/2.106
Medium and Support
watercolor and ink on wove paper (map printed on verso)
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism / Der Blaue Reiter
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Title
The Bremen Town Musicians (Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten), preparatory drawing for print, "Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten," in Alfred Kubin, Abenteuer einer Zeichenfeder (Münich: R. Piper & Co., 1941) #13
Artist
Alfred Kubin
Physical Description
To the right, four animals - a donkey, goat, cat, and rooster - appear stacked upon one another in a barely sketched-in window. On the left side, four figures sit at what appears to be a meal in a dinning room, with a soup tureen and various dishes. The image is hastily sketched and few details are absolutely readable, other than basic shapes.
Artist Life Dates
1877-1959
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1940
Accession Number
2007/2.118
Medium and Support
graphite on wove paper
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Style/Group/Movement
German Expressionism / Der Blaue Reiter
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