Tension. German expressionism in the Art Museum of Estonia collection

This catalogue accompanied an exhibition at the Mikkel Museum (03.04.–31.10.2010) and introduces one of Estonia’s most important foreign art collections, which reached the Art Museum thanks to private collectors. No other 20th century modernist movement has been as well and internationally represented in Estonia as German Expressionism. The collection covers graphic art and drawings – and the nucleus is made up of works by the Expressionists, including artists from the seminal Expressionist groups Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter (Emil Nolde, Franz Marc, Heinrich Campendonk, Paul Klee, Erich Heckel and Alfred Kubin), as well as artists representative of late Expressionism (Neue Sachlichkeit and verism) (Otto Dix, Max Beckmann and George Grosz). There are also examples of work by such major Expressionist figures as Ernst Barlach, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, Käthe Kollwitz and others.