Woodcut, composition (irreg.): 8 15/16 x 16 1/2" (22.7 x 41.9 cm); sheet (irreg.): 14 x 21 7/8" (35.6 x 55.5 cm). Paper: Cream, slightly textured, wove. Publisher: unpublished. Printer: Erich Heckel. Edition: approx. 30-50 (many printed after 1910). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Gerson.
© 2011 Erich Heckel / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany
40.1958

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Throughout the tour, you'll be hearing the music of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg, who were active during this era.  The musical excerpts are from The Blue Rider in Performance, a co-production of Da Camera of Houston, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, and Miller Theater of Columbia University, which was conceived and directed by Sarah Rothenberg.  Performers are Susan Narucki, soprano and Sarah Rothenberg, piano.

Erich Heckel. Fränzi Reclining. 1910

Vasily Kandinsky

Illustrated book with fifty-six woodcuts, page (each): 11 1/16 x 10 7/8" (28.1 x 27.7 cm); overall: 11 1/4 x 11 1/4" (28.5 x 28.5 cm). Paper: Cream, smooth, laid (Van Gelder Zonen). Publisher: R. Piper & Co., Munich. Edition: Book: 300 (signed and numbered); 45 h.c. The Louis E. Stern Collection.
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
858.1964.1-56

Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide.

Throughout the tour, you'll be hearing the music of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg, who were active during this era.  The musical excerpts are from The Blue Rider in Performance, a co-production of Da Camera of Houston, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, and Miller Theater of Columbia University, which was conceived and directed by Sarah Rothenberg.  Performers are Susan Narucki, soprano and Sarah Rothenberg, piano.

Vasily Kandinsky. Klänge. 1913

Lithograph, Sheet: 23 5/8 x 29 15/16" (60 x 76 cm); Composition: 21 x 27 1/16" (53.3 x 68.8 cm). Publisher: Emil Nolde. Printer: Westphalen, Flensburg, Germany. Edition: 35. Promised gift of Lynn G. Straus in memory of Philip A. Straus.
© Nolde Stiftung Seebüll, Germany
PG398.2004
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Emil Nolde, Dancer, 1913

Portfolio of eleven transfer lithographs (including front cover), composition (see child records): dimensions vary; sheet (each approx., orientation varies): 24 3/16 x 34 5/16" (61.4 x 87.2 cm) or 34 3/8 x 24 1/8" (87.3 x 61.2 cm). Paper: Cream, smooth, wove "japan.". Publisher: J. B. Neumann, Berlin. Printer: C. Naumann's Druckerei, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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Max Beckmann, Hell, 1919 (prints executed: 1918-1919)

Egon Schiele

Gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper, 22 3/8 x 15 7/8" (56.8 x 40.3 cm). Paper: Wove. Gift of the Galerie St. Etienne, New York, in memory of Dr. Otto Kallir; promised gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder; and purchase
607.1983

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Egon Schiele. Girl with Black Hair. 1911. Birth of Austrian Expressionism

Lithograph, composition: 19 1/8 x 14 5/8" (48.6 x 37.1 cm); sheet: 24 1/2 x 18 7/16" (62.3 x 46.8 cm). Paper: Cream, smooth, laid. Publisher: Karl Nierendorf, Berlin. Printer: unknown. Edition: 65; plus one trial proof of state I. Carol O. Selle Fund (by exchange).
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
710.1995

Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide.

Throughout the tour, you'll be hearing the music of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg, who were active during this era.  The musical excerpts are from The Blue Rider in Performance, a co-production of Da Camera of Houston, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, and Miller Theater of Columbia University, which was conceived and directed by Sarah Rothenberg.  Performers are Susan Narucki, soprano and Sarah Rothenberg, piano.

Otto Dix, Nocturnal Apparition, 1923

Oil on canvas, 23 3/4 x 15 7/8" (60.2 x 40.3 cm). Gift of Dr. and Mrs. F. H. Hirschland.
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
255.1956

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Max Beckmann, Self-Portrait with a Cigarette, 1923

March 27-July 11, 2011

This exhibition, featuring approximately 250 works by some thirty artists, is drawn from MoMA’s outstanding holdings of German Expressionist prints, enhanced by selected drawings, paintings, and sculptures from the collection. The graphic impulse is traced from the formation of the Brücke artists group in 1905, through the war years of the 1910s, and extending into the 1920s, when individual artists continued to produce compelling work even as the movement was winding down.

The exhibition takes a broad view of Expressionism, highlighting a diverse array of individuals—from Oskar Kokoschka and Vasily Kandinsky to Erich Heckel and Emil Nolde—who nonetheless shared visual and thematic concerns. Their works reflect a period of intense social and aesthetic transformation, and several themes of continuing resonance emerge. To view images of these artworks, please visit the Online Collection at moma.org/collection.  MoMA Audio is available free of charge courtesy of Bloomberg.

Publisher: Vereinigung zur Bekämpfung des Bolschewismus, Berlin. 1919. Lithograph, 37 1/8 x 27 3/8" (94.3 x 69.5 cm). Paper: Cream, smooth, wove. Gift of the Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund
434.1985

Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide.

Throughout the tour, you'll be hearing the music of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg, who were active during this era.  The musical excerpts are from The Blue Rider in Performance, a co-production of Da Camera of Houston, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, and Miller Theater of Columbia University, which was conceived and directed by Sarah Rothenberg.  Performers are Susan Narucki, soprano and Sarah Rothenberg, piano.

Rudi Feld, The Danger of Bolshevism. 1919

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Street Scene with Little Dog (Strassenszene mit Hündchen)
(1914). Etching, plate: 9 3/4 x 6 7/16" (24.7 x 16.4 cm); sheet: 15 9/16 x 13 1/8" (39.6 x 33.4 cm). Paper: Cream, slightly textured, wove. Publisher: unpublished. Printer: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Berlin. Edition: unknown (approx. 5-10). Purchase
644.1956

Street Scene (Strassenszene)
(1914). Ink and watercolor on paper, 21 3/8 x 15 1/2" (54.3 x 39.4 cm). Paper: Wove. Gift of Curt Valentin
330.1941

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Street Scene with Little Dog (1914) and Street Scene (1914)

Oil on canvas. 47 1/2 x 35 7/8" (120.6 x 91.1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. Photograph by Ellen Page Wilson
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Street, Berlin. 1913. Berlin and Expressionism

1924 (prints executed 1923-1924). Portfolio of fifty etching, aquatint, and drypoints, plate (each approx.): 8 11/16 x 9 1/16" (22 x 23 cm); sheet (each approx.): 15 11/16 x 16 9/16" (39.8 x 42.1 cm). Paper: 28 on cream, smooth, wove, and 22 on cream, smooth, laid. Publisher: Karl Nierendorf, Berlin. Printer: Otto Felsing, Berlin. Edition: 70. Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. 
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
159.1934.1-50

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Otto Dix, The War, 1924

Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide.

Throughout the tour, you'll be hearing the music of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg, who were active during this era.  The musical excerpts are from The Blue Rider in Performance, a co-production of Da Camera of Houston, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, and Miller Theater of Columbia University, which was conceived and directed by Sarah Rothenberg.  Performers are Susan Narucki, soprano and Sarah Rothenberg, piano.

Erich Heckel. Fränzi Reclining. 1910. The Brücke Group

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Street, Berlin. 1913

Käthe Kollwitz

Portfolio of seven woodcuts and one woodcut cover, composition: see child records; sheet (each approx.): 18 3/4 x 25 15/16" (47.6 x 65.9 cm). Publisher: Emil Richter, Dresden. Printer: probably Fritz Voigt, Berlin. Edition: Edition A (issued in portfolio): 100 hand-printed, numbered and signed on imperial Japan paper [this ex.]; Edition B: 100 hand-printed, numbered and signed on wove paper; Edition C, published in 1924: 200 printed from an electrotype plate on imitation japan paper. Gift of the Arnhold Family in memory of Sigrid Edwards.
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
470.1992.1-8

Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide.

Throughout the tour, you'll be hearing the music of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg, who were active during this era.  The musical excerpts are from The Blue Rider in Performance, a co-production of Da Camera of Houston, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, and Miller Theater of Columbia University, which was conceived and directed by Sarah Rothenberg.  Performers are Susan Narucki, soprano and Sarah Rothenberg, piano.

Käthe Kollwitz, War, 1923, prints executed 1921-22

German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse

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