Kirchner defines his city with only the figures: there is not a building in view.
Dr. Juliana Kreinik
The anxiety felt by the women waiting for husbands sailing on a stormy sea is almost tangible in Munch’s picture.
Edvard Munch, The Storm
A worm’s eye view: this photograph upends our expectations, helping us think more deeply about seeing.
László Moholy-Nagy, Climbing the Mast
Sander documented German people from all walks of life, but the goals of his project remain unclear.
August Sander, Portraits
A Czech journalist is depicted as a collage of modern technology. What would Umbo make of our 21st-century tech?
Umbo, The Roving Reporter
Klee playfully evokes sound, energy, and motion with these mischievous birds—all in two dimensions.
Paul Klee, Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine)
This woodcut embodies the hopes of the Bauhaus, a new German school for craft and architecture.
Lyonel Feininger, Cathedral for Program of the ...
Kirchner defines his city with only the figures: there is not a building in view.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Dresden
The art world may have snubbed photography initially, but the upheavals of the 20th century changed everything.
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