"This groundbreaking examination of the cultural exchange between early 20th century French and German artists illuminates new ways of understanding the development of Expressionism."--publisher.

In this comprehensive collection, director of the Gerhard Richter Archive Dietmar Elger gathers the many artists and elements of this urgent, scattered, complex movement into one authoritative overview of its protagonists, principles, and essential role in 20th-century modernism. Finding a critical calm amid the frenzy of color and distortion, the book distills Expressionism's leading collectives, Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, as well as its regional...

This volume draws from the Museum of Modern Art's outstanding holdings of expressionist prints, enhanced by selected drawings, paintings and sculptures from the collection, to explore the importance of printmaking in German expressionism.

"This volume presents the paintings of Gabriele Münter in ten thematic sections that bring the artist's creative process to the fore. For the first time, Münter's paintings are accompanied by a large number of her photographs from North America, taken around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The picture that emerges from the whole is that of an extraordinarily open-minded and adventuresome artist."