Expressionism by Dietmar Elger

Expressionism by Dietmar Elger

First published in 1973, this book provides a helpful introduction to expressionism in literature. After providing a helpful introduction to the origins and defining characteristics of expressionism, the book traces the movement in Germany from 1900 through to the 1920s and its dissemination across Europe and North America. It concludes with a summary of the decline of expressionism from the mid-twenties onwards.

This book will be of interest to those studying German and European literature in the early twentieth-century.

Dietmar Elger attended the University of Hamburg, where he studied art history, history, and literature. He worked as Gerhard Richter's assistant in 1984/85 and as the curator for painting and sculpture at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover from 1989 until 2006. Since 2006, he has led the Gerhard Richter Archive at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, where he has staged major exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. He wrote the volumes Expressionism, Dadaism, and Abstract Art for TASCHEN.