Twentieth-Century German Painting: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection - Hardcover

The twentieth-century German paintings, all of which have been acquired since the 1960s by the present Baron Thyssen, form the core of the remarkable modern holdings of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Works by such diverse artists as Klee, Beckmann, Meidner, Kirchner, Schmidt-Rottluff, Pechstein, Franz Marc, Grosz and Dix are augmented by examples of other artists working within the German tradition - Kandinsky, Munch, Ensor, Feininger, van Dongen and Jawlensky. The focus of this catalogue, the latest in the series embracing the whole of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, is the exhaustive entries on individual works. Being in some cases extended essays in themselves, these entries bring to light much new information based on first-hand documentary and archival research, enabling the author to reassess many of the Collection's more problematic works. Each of the 118 subjects is reproduced in colour and the accompanying 125 comparative figures are illustrated in black and white. The authoritative introductory essay, together with a comprehensive notes section and bibliography, affords an overview of the exciting developments taking place in German art in the first half of this century, and place the Thyssen Collection's paintings in the context of such contemporary movements as Die Brucke and The Blue Rider, as well as later groups like Neue Sachlichkeit.

Peter Vergo is Reader in Art History and Theory at the University of Essex. His previous publications include Art in Vienna 1898-1918 (1975), The Blue Rider(1977), and Wassily Kandinsky: Complete writings on Art (1982).