Peter Selz

Regents of the University of California

Traces the development of Expressionism in Dresden, Munich, and Vienna between 1905 and 1914

German Expressionist Painting

Giovanni Garcia-Fenech 

The first comprehensive study of German Expressionism written in English (in 1957). Very informative, but tends to become a bit of a name soup, which is particularly annoying when the artists being discussed are not illustrated. Also, the "plates" are inconveniently located in the back of the book. Considering that they're all black and white images printed on the same paper stock as the rest of the book, it would have been easy and much better to intersperse them in the text, saving the reader the distraction of having to continuously flip back and forth. All niggling aside, this is a good resource for students of modern art, and a necessary reminder that not everything of importance in that period was happening in Paris.

German Expressionist Painting

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