Phaidon 20th-century Art: Expressionism

Contributed by Martyn Wilson


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Michel Waxmann’s 1969 multiline Michel in use for a book about Expressionism, edited by Maly and Dietfried Gerhardus and published by Phaidon in 1979:

Starting with the forerunners of Expressionism: Gauguin, Van Gogh, the French ‘Fauves’ and individualists such as the Norwegian Munch and the Belgian Ensor, the book surveys the work of the painters belonging to the German groups ‘Die Brücke’ and ‘Der Blaue Reiter’, independent painters such as the Austrians Kubin and Kokoschka, and finally the development of Expressionism into the ‘New Objectivity’, as represented by painters such as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix and Georg Grosz.

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The sans used on the back cover is Univers.

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