1890s
In Kollwitz' description of the poor weavers’ revolt we find elements from the pathos of tragedy.
About the exhibition
Read about the exhibition. It was dedicated to one of the most hectic chapters of the history of German art.
German World Images 1890-1930 – from Kollwitz to Nolde
20 April 2012 – 12 August 2012. The Royal Collection of Graphic Arts
What is true art? What does art look like? What is art about? These were the questions that the European avant-garde sought to answer. In Germany the questions became intermeshed with attempts at determining a national identity.
Follow the hunt for answers and see how artists sought to reinvent art.
Towards 1930
Nolde’s works from the 1920s and 1930s reveal his affinity with the countryside of his native Schleswig-Holstein.
1920s
During the years after World War I German art was greatly influenced by a constructive idiom.
From 1905 to World War I
Art was not meant to imitate reality, but to express a primordial creative force.
Around 1920
Kandinsky held that art should contribute to a spiritualisation of culture and society.
