Table of Contents:
  • Development in German esthetics relevant to the expressionist movement
  • Art criticism and esthetic thought
  • New responses to past styles
  • Panorama of German art around 1900
  • The sentiment of the classic
  • Realism and impressionism
  • Regionalism, Worpswede, and Paula Modersohn-Becker
  • Jugendstil: a major source of expressionist painting
  • Die Brücke
  • The formation of the Brücke
  • The expansion of the Brücke
  • Development of the Brücke from 1907 to 1910
  • Emil Nolde, 1907-1912
  • The Brücke painters in Berlin
  • Expressionist trends in Vienna
  • The Vienna secession, Klimt, and Schiele
  • Oskar Kokoschka, 1905-1920
  • The development of expressionism in Munich
  • Munich at the turn of the century: Kandinsky's beginnings
  • The new artists' association
  • Der Blaue Reiter I
  • Der Blaue Reiter II
  • Esthetic theories of Wassily Kandinsky
  • The prewar years
  • Controversies about the modern movement and its affirmation in the Sonderbund
  • Der Sturm
  • First German autumn salon
  • The expressionist movement expands
  • Journeys to exotic countries
  • 1914 and after
  • Conclusion.