Friday Morning Lecture & Tour Series | German Expressionist Art 1905-1937

Looking at the interaction between politics and creativity during the first half of the 20th century, Cornelia Feye, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library School of the Arts and Arts Education Director, will put into context works on view in The Human Beast.
German art experienced an extraordinary surge of creativity in the years before World War I and throughout the Weimar Republic. In 1905 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner founded the expressionist movement Die Brücke together with like-minded artists in Dresden. In Munich Wassily Kandinsky started the Blaue Reiter with Paul Klee, Franz Marc and August Macke in 1911. Artists like Käthe Kollwitz, Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann and Otto Dix were associated with the movement. Several started to teach at the Bauhaus School and their influence grew beyond Germany - until the Nazi regime put an end to all avant-garde arts by declaring them "degenerate" and confiscating thousands of artworks in museums and private collections all over Germany. This lecture will look at the interaction between politics and creativity during this time period.
Sponsored by The San Diego Museum Art Docent Council
www.TheSanDiegoMuseumofArt.org
Video produced by The Balboa Park Online Collaborative

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Very informative, and a delightful presentation. Worth watching more than once.

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very good, thank you

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Bismark was dead in 1902.

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[@zenoist2]

Some good expressionist art on flickr.

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[@renzo6490]

The speaker referred to the German submarines that attacked "the enemy". The enemy of that sentence were the allies: America and Britain. She also refers to the National Socialists instead of the more common name Nazis.

[@arthurpaes9694]

she did say nazi a couple times though? are you trying to imply she is a nazi-sympathizer? an art expert giving a lecture on expressionism? sure

[@gavinreid5387]

She is German, so yes, America and Britain were the enemy.

[@jojojo8835]

@@arthurpaes9694 I think we should cut her some linguistic slack: English obviously isn’t her mother tongue, and the subtle inferences of two different terms describing the same entity must be a easy to forget.

[@renzo6490]

@@Annie-zd7mx -I'm not implying anything. I just found her terminology interesting. Make of that what you will.

[@robertgiles9124]

ooops, she says Werefkin met Jawlensky in 1992....off by a little bit there, as they were both dead by then. Should be 1892. Then again at 49:41 she says 1992 instead of 1892 for Kandinsky.

[@charleskristiansson1296]

She's German and speaking in English. Sometimes one can make mistakes.

[@robertgiles9124]

@@charleskristiansson1296 Since when do Dates change because of the language difference in Europe? Did YOU make a mistake writing? You must have meant; Good Catch! Thank you.

[@robertgiles9124]

@@Annie-zd7mx You must be dull in general and once you're booed up at :parties" then even duller.

[@gerryarty8342]

Shame, not very impressive.. 10 min to get 1905 !!! Just reading of notes.. poor presentation..

[@jamesanonymous2343]

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ART ???? EXAMPLE ! LOOK AT A KANDINSKY, AND TRY TO DESCRIBE IT TO SOMEONE, WHO HAS NEVER SEEN ONE. A LITTLE DABBLE HERE, A LITTLE DABBLE THERE.,,, DONE

[@susandilaudo9534]

wow. that makes me sad to read. and confused a bit, too, i suppose. he is my favorite artist of all time.

[@jamesanonymous2343]

AS AN ART VIDEO/DOC. THIS ONE SUCKS !