German Expressionist Prints And Drawings Catalogue Of The Collection

The Robert Gore Rifkind Centre for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art contains the world's most comprehensive and distinguished collection of German Expressionist prints and drawings, illustrated books, and periodicals. The essays in volume 1 place the collection in the context of the history and development of the German expressionist movement. Volume 2 illustrates each of the more than 5000 works in the collection.

The Specks Collection is noted for its high quality, breadth, and profound graphic power. In celebration of the gift to the museum, the collection is presented here for the first time in its entirety.

Expressionism was a dominant force in German art from the late 1890s until the 1930s. The Marcia and Granville Specks Collection is noted for its high quality, breadth and profound graphic power. The collection is presented here for the first time as well as detailed information on papers, papermarks, edition size and provenance.

Primitivism versus modernity: the expressionist dilemma - Politics of primitivism - Brucke bathers: back to nature - Max Pechstein's visionary ideas - Emil Nolded.