Room 199

German Art around 1900

1840–1924, Germany (Berlin, Worpswede, Munich), Realism, Impressionism and Expressionism

Adolph Menzel drew everything he encountered with an incorruptible eye – a waistcoat, a raincoat, a man drinking. Max Liebermann brought Impressionism to Berlin. In Worpswede Paula Modersohn-Becker painted peasant women, children and old women with great simplicity. Käthe Kollwitz used her prints to denounce hunger, poverty and war. Franz Marc and August Macke of the “Blue Rider” sought a new, pure world in glowing colours; both were killed in the First World War.

All works