'German Expressionism 1900-1930: Masterpieces from the Neue Galerie Collection' Looks Too Good To Be True (PHOTOS)

From 1900-1930 German art gained its highly charged energy from its simultaneous relationship to modernity and primitivism. Both ideals, though in many ways polar opposites, sought to fight the academic rules governing the previous century. Thus with drama, ferocity and raw emotion, German expressionists created a world somewhere between the streets of Berlin and the colorful cabarets of the imagination.

"German Expressionism 1900-1930: Masterpieces from the Neue Galerie Collection" will examine the stunning artistic movement that preceded World War II. Vasily Kandinsky turns German city streets into sites of melting pastel architecture with his sensorially rich paintings. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff channels Futurism, Cubism and African tribal art in his portrayal of a monstrous yet seductive woman, a German expressionist response to Picasso's "Demoiselles D'Avignon."

Other artists represented include Max Beckmann, Lovis Corinth, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc, August Macke and Hermann Max Pechstein. The German Expressionist movement is not bound by a single logic or aesthetic, but by the desire to turn the lonely city streets into a site of color, transformation and creation.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Neue Galerie is presenting 100 gifted works of German and Austrian decorative arts, including graphic design, ceramics, metalwork, and glass, intensifying the Galerie's portrait of turn of the century German expression.

"German Exhibition" will show from February 7 to April 22, 2013 at the Neue Galerie in New York.

• Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) Murnau: Street with Women/Murnau: Strasse mit Frauen, 1908 Oil on cardboard This work is part of the collection of Est?e Lauder and was made available through the generosity of Est?e Lauder ? 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

• Hermann Max Pechstein (1881-1955) Young Woman with Red Fan/M?dchen mit rotem F?cher, ca. 1910 Oil on canvas This work is part of the collection of Est?e Lauder and was made available through the generosity of Est?e Lauder ? 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Pechstein Hamburg / Toekendorf / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

• Franz Marc (1880-1916) The First Animals/Die ersten Tiere, 1913 Gouache and pencil on paper Private Collection, New York

• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) Seated Female Nude/Sitzender weiblicher Akt, 1907-08 Colored crayon and charcoal on paper Neue Galerie New York

• Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976) Nude/Akt, 1914 Oil on canvas Neue Galerie New York ? 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

• Emil Nolde (1867-1956) Priestesses/Priesterinnen, 1912 Oil on canvas Neue Galerie New York ? 2013 Nolde-Stiftung Seeb?ll

• Peter Behrens (1868-1940) Mocha cup and saucer from a dinnerware service shown at the Modern Dwelling Interiors (Moderne Wohnr?ume) exhibition at the Wertheim Department Store, Berlin, 1902 Execution: Porzellanfabrik Gebr?der Bauscher, Weiden Hard-paste porcelain with stenciled design in blue Neue Galerie New York. Gift of Harry C. Sigman

• Henry van de Velde (1863-1957) Poster for Tropon: L'Aliment le plus concentr?, 1898 Publisher: Genossenschaft Pan GmbH, Berlin Printer: Leutert & Schneidewind, Dresden Color lithograph Neue Galerie New York. Gift of Harry C. Sigman ? 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels

• Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867-1908) Two-branch candlestick, ca. 1901 Execution: Metallwarenfabrik Eduard Hueck, L?denscheid Pewter Neue Galerie New York. Gift of Harry C. Sigman

• Form by Koloman Moser (1868-1918) Decoration by Jutta Sika (1877-1964) Cup and saucer, 1901-02 Execution: Josef B?ck, Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur, Vienna Hard-paste porcelain with stenciled design in green Neue Galerie New York. Gift of Harry C. Sigman

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