Dresden and Berlin

City and War

Berlin streets, the First World War and the print as protest, 1902–1923

In 1911 the Brücke painters left Dresden for Berlin. Within three years the First World War broke into their lives and their art. Prints became a way to grieve and to protest in public.

• Kirchner's Berlin: the street and its crowds as a modern subject
• The war's toll on artists, seen in a self-portrait and scenes of violence
• Käthe Kollwitz and the print made for a wide public

Works in this part

• Berlin Street Scene
• Potsdamer Platz
• Street Scene after the Rain
• Self-Portrait as a Soldier
• The Night (Die Nacht)
• Memorial Print for Karl Liebknecht
• The People (Das Volk), plate 7 of War
• Outbreak (Losbruch), plate 5 of Peasants' War

Image: Wikimedia Commons · PD-Art