The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context

Expressionist Networks, Cultural Debates, and Artistic Practices: A Conceptual Introduction

Isabel Wünsche

1. Prague – Brno: Expressionism in Context

Marie Rakušanová

2. Košice Modernism and Anton Jaszusch’s Expressionism

Zsófia Kiss-Szemán

3. Expressionism in Hungary: From the Neukunstgruppe to Der Sturm

András Zwickl

4. Poznan Expressionism and Its Connections with the German and International Avant-garde

Lidia Głuchowska

5. Expressionist Networks in the Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and the Soviet Union

Isabel Wünsche

6. Expressionism in Lithuania: From German Artistic Import to National Art

Giedrė Jankevičiūtė and Laima Laučkaitė

7. Expressionist Originality in Latvia: Between Confirmation and Destruction

Ginta Gerharde-Upeniece

8. The Ambivalent Affair of Estonian Expressionism

Tiina Abel

Part II: Scandinavia

9. Expressionism in Denmark: Art and Discourse

Torben Jelsbak

10. Expressionisms in Sweden: Anti-realism, Primitivism, and Politics in Painting and Print

Margareta Wallin Wictorin

11. Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the Discourses on Expressionism in Finland:

From the November Group to Ina Behrsen-Colliander

Timo Huusko and Tutta Palin

12. Expressionism in Sámi Art: John Savio’s Woodcuts of the 1920s and 1930s

Tuija Hautala-Hirvioja

13. Early Expressionism in Icelandic Art: Jón Stefánsson, Jóhannes Kjarval, and Finnur Jónsson

Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir

Part III: Western Europe

14. Early Engagements: Peripheral British Responses to German Expressionism

Christian Weikop

15. Expressionism in the Netherlands

Gert Imanse and Gregor Langfeld

16. Flemish Expressionism in Belgium

Cathérine Verleysen

17. Jewish Expressionists in France, 1900-1940

Richard D. Sonn

18. German Expressionism in Italy: Herwarth Walden’s Der Sturm, the Berlin

Novembergruppe, and the Modernist Circles of Florence, Turin, and Rome

Irene Chytraeus-Auerbach

19. Expressionism and the Spanish Avant-garde between Restoration and Renovation

Wiebke Gronemeyer

20. Portuguese Expressionism, or German Expressionism in Portugal?

Nina Blum de Almeida

Part IV: Southeastern Europe

21. Expressionism in Slovenia: The Aspects of a Term

Marko Jenko

22. From Anxiety to Rebellion: Expressionism in Croatian Art

Petar Prelog

23. On New Art and its Manifestations: Rethinking Expressionism in Visual Arts in Belgrade

Ana Bogdanović

24. Tokens of Identity: Expressionisms in Romania around the First World War

Erwin Kessler

25. Expressionism in Bulgaria: Critical Reflections in Art Magazines and the Graphic Arts

Irina Genova

Part V: Beyond Europe

26. Expressionism in Canada and the United States

Oliver A.I. Botar and Herbert R. Hartel, Jr.

27. Expressionism in Latin America and Its Contribution to the Modernist Discourse

Maria Frick

28. The Expressionist Roots of South African Modernism

Lisa Hörstmann

Selected Bibliography

Index

Biography

Isabel Wünsche is a professor of art and art history at Jacobs University Bremen. She specializes in European modernism, the avant-garde movements, and abstract art. Her book publications include Galka E. Scheyer & The Blue Four: Correspondence, 1924–1945 (Benteli, 2006), Biocentrism and Modernism (with Oliver A. I. Botar, Ashgate, 2011), Meanings of Abstract Art: Between Nature and Theory (with Paul Crowther, Routledge, 2012), The Organic School of the Russian Avant-Garde (Ashgate, 2015), Marianne Werefkin and the Women Artists in Her Circle (with Tanja Malycheva, Brill/Rodopi, 2016), and Practices of Abstract Art: Between Anarchism and Appropriation (with Wiebke Gronemeyer, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016).

"Making a serious contribution to a global art history ... [the book] succeeds in mapping patterns of identity in under-explored geographical areas while augmenting our understanding of the concepts of expressionism and Bauhaus modernism."

--Art History