German Expressionist Woodcuts Readers interested in the art

Readers interested in the art of the woodcut as well as students and enthusiasts of twentieth-century art will find this volume ideal for browsing and study

— more than 800 varieties in all — includes in addition methods of cultivation

Combining stylized natural and geometric forms to produce striking images

this dual-language book contains 13 great

In these delightfully melodramatic accounts

German Expressionist Woodcuts Readers interested in the artGerman Expressionism was an extraordinarily vivid presence in the art of the early twentieth century, its violent colors and often distorted, stylized forms reflecting not only the rebellious spirit of its participants, but the revolutionary mood of the new century itself. One of the most popular media used by the German Expressionists was the woodcut, important in the history of German art from the time of Albrecht Drer (14711528), and especially