German Expressionism, one of the most significant movements of early
European modernism, was an enormously powerful element in Germany's
cultural life from the end of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Third Reich.
While the movement embraced such diverse artists as E. L. Kirchner,
Wassily Kandinsky, Käthe Kollwitz, and George Grosz, all the
participants shared an almost messianic belief in the power of art to
change society. Rose-Carol Washton Long has drawn together over eighty
documents crucial to the understanding of German Expressionism, many of
them translated for the first time into English.