Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's years in Berlin mark his ascent to being considered Germany's foremost Expressionist artist. His works from this period abound with a new dynamism that mirrors the turbulent life and lifestyles of the capital. Dance, cabaret, circus, prostitutes and grandiose cityscapes are the dominating topics and belong to the key works of German 20th-century art. German text.

English summary: Wood blocks reveal unmediated the creative formation of the wood cuts: they document the process and the involvement of the artist with the material more than the flat impression made on paper. Besides the graphics, the particular affinity of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff for the material of wood is revealed in the production of sculptures, furnishings, and handcrafts. The graphic formation of the wood blocks stands on the cusp for three-dimensional works. With over 200 wood blocks, the Bruecke-Museum possesses almost half of Schmidt-Rottluff's wood works, which were donated by the artist himself in 1975. The wood-block collection contains the early small-formal works from around 1905 up to the later 1920's and provides an extensive survey of Schmidt-Rottluff's work, among which are advertising works, ex libris prints, periodical and map letterhead. From the middle of the 1920's the artist experimented with the technique of color wood cuts: he used multiple discs, cut the blocks for print with different colors or colored a block with multiple colors. The catalog presents the wood blocks in full-page color tables across from the corresponding graphic pages from the collection of the museum. The accompanying texts address the process, the specific quality of expression and the creative process of the technique. German description: Die Holzstocke offenbaren unmittelbar die schopferische Genese der Holzschnitte, mehr als der flachige Druck auf Papier dokumentieren sie die Bearbeitung und die Auseinandersetzung des Kuenstlers mit dem Material. Neben der Graphik zeigt sich die besondere Affinitat Karl Schmidt-Rottluffs fuer den Werkstoff Holz in der Anfertigung von Skulpturen, Mobeln und Kunsthandwerk. Die plastische Gestaltung der Holzstocke steht an der Schwelle zum dreidimensionalen Schaffen des Kuenstlers. Das Bruecke-Museum besitzt mit ueber 200 Holzstocken fast die Halfte des Holzschnittwerkes Schmidt-Rottluffs - der Kuenstler selbst hatte sie 1975 dem Museum geschenkt. Die Holzstock-Sammlung reicht von fruehen kleinformatigen Arbeiten um 1905 bis in die spaten zwanziger Jahre und gibt einen umfassenden Uberblick ueber das Werk Karl Schmidt-Rottluffs, darunter auch gebrauchsgraphische Arbeiten wie Ex libris, Zeitschriften- und Mappentitel. Ab Mitte der zwanziger Jahre experimentierte der Kuenstler mit der Technik des Farbholzschnitts: Er verwendete mehrere Platten, zersagte die Stocke fuer den Druck mit verschiedenen Farben oder farbte einen Stock mit mehreren Farben ein. Der Katalog prasentiert die Holzstocke auf ganzseitigen Farbtafeln und stellt die entsprechenden graphischen Blatter aus der Sammlung des Museums gegenueber. Die begleitenden Texte thematisieren die Bearbeitung, die spezifische Ausdrucksqualitat und den Schaffensprozess der Technik.

Unmittelbar und unverfalscht... prasentiert einen Querschnitt aus der Graphischen Sammlung des Berliner Brucke-Museums.

The collection of Rolf Horn is one of the most important private collections of German art of classical modernism. To Rolf Horn, the direct expressiveness of a piece of art was the decisive test of his purchasing decisions. Works by Emil Nolde, Christian Rohlfs and Kathe Kollwitz, as well as sculptures created by Ernst Barlach in Guestrow, Germany are part of the collection that has been housed in the Schleswig-Holstein Gottorf Castle since 1995. As beneficence to the Gottorfer Castle, a generous selection is now for the first time available for public viewing in the Berlin Bruecke Museum. This illustrious catalog is equipped with compact monographs on individual artists and creates an intensive compendium of essays on German art in the first half of the 20th Century and arouses interest in the artifacts of distant nations. German text.

This volume is centered around the pastel drawings of Karl Schmitt-Rottluff that he executed during the early 1940s, when he was banned from painting by the regime of the Third Reich. German text.