On Wednesday, March 18, I toured the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s (MIA) most recent exhibition, “Modern Art and Politics in ...

George Grosz, “Attack (Attentat),” 1915, lithograph in black on laid paper. (National Gallery of Art/Purchased as the gift of Richard A. Simms and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund/Estate of George ...

The BYU Museum of Art hosted "Reconciliation: Biblical Imagination in German Expressionist Prints," which began on March 15. The collection ran until Oct. 19. (Daily Universe) The BYU Museum of Art ...

In the 1890s, when Pablo Picasso was a pup, a Schleswig-German artist named Emil Nolde began experimenting. He distorted forms, rearranged figures, changed colors—innovations with which Picasso was ...

While today, abstraction is a widely deployed form of creative expression, this wasn’t always the case. At the turn of the 20th century, and evolving over the course of the next several decades, ...

Catalog of an exhibit organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and also held at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and at Josef-Haubrich Kunsthalle Köln. German expressionist sculpture ...

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Germany expanded its boundaries to Africa though colonization. Although short-lived, lasting only until World War I, colonization led to new ideas in German ...

Otto Dix, ‘Dead Men before the Position near Tahure (Tote vor der Stellung bei Tahure),’ 1924, etching and aquatintplate: 19 x 25.6 cm (7 1/2 x 10 1/16 in.)sheet: 34.8 x 47.3 cm (13 11/16 x 18 5/8 in.

A show at Washington’s National Gallery of Art highlights how European artists of the early 20th century responded to political upheavals, war and social unrest—drawing discomfiting parallels between ...

‘Der Sturm,’ cover of Volume 8, Issue 7 (October 1917) (all screen shots from ‘Der Sturm’ via the Blue Mountain Project) Der Sturm, the title of the arts magazine that served as the mouthpiece for ...