Exhibitions

From the Trenches to the Street: Art from Germany, 1910s-1920s

January 19–March 18, 2007
Main Gallery

Conrad Felixmüller, Soldier in the Insane Asylum, 1918, lithograph. Wriston Art Gallery, Lawrence University, 82.73. © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

World War I was a formative experience for many German artists in the early twentieth century. Although originally enthusiastic about the mission of the war, many artists were eventually disillusioned by the brutality and carnage they witnessed. The experience of war, as well as the ensuing social upheaval of the early Weimar Republic, informed the work of Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Käthe Kollwitz, George Grosz, and others who created some of the most cynical, pessimistic, and trenchant imagery of their time.

Reproduction, including downloading of Conrad Felixmüller's works, is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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