Room 17. Northern European graphics
Room 17. Northern European graphics
This room shows the exception attention paid by the historical avant-gardes to graphic media. In the field of expressionism in particular, these were used as tools for communication and the presentation of ideas (the group Die Brücke communicated its thought via the annual publication of a “graphic file”), whereas for individual artists it offered a territory for experimentation and the creation of new processes to adapt to their expressive needs. This extraordinary selection constitutes an anthology of the works of the key figures from the first half of the twentieth century from Central Europe, such as Kandinsky, Klee and Feininger, united by their experience of the Bauhaus, which periodically published booklets dedicated to European graphic art, as well as Nolde, Pechstein and Schmidt-Rottluff.