The German Revolution - Expressionist Prints

Catalogue accompanying the major German Revolution: Expressionist Prints exhibition which ran at the Hunterian Art Gallery from March-August 2019. 

The German Revolution (1918–1919) was a period of anarchy and violence that broke out at the end of the First World War in Berlin and other cities. The exhibition at the Hunterian focused on the revolutionary printmaking that emerged in Germany in the years 1906-1926. 

The works were drawn from the Hunterian’s own exceptional holdings of German Expressionist art, supplemented by Max Beckmann’s set of 11 lithographs, Hell, lent by the National Galleries of Scotland. This was the great period of the woodcut, led by the Norwegian Edvard Munch, who inspired many to take up a medium which has dramatic persuasive power. Artists often turned their backs on the physical destruction and looked inwards. Munch, Kollwitz, Kokschka, Sheiele, Schmidt-Rottluff, Nolde, Pechstein, Heckel, Brlacg, Dix, Grosz, Corinth and Paula Modersohn-Becker all made prints exploring human stories, linked thematically in two sections of the exhibition - Love and Anxiety, and A Bridge to Utopia. 

Publisher: The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
ISBN: 978-0-904254-99-0
Dimensions: 22 x 28 cm