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This article examines the life and work of 20th century German avant-garde artist Erich Buchholz. Topics addressed include Buchholz's work with abstract, three-dimensional spaces.

This article provides a historical overview of the Dusseldorf Gallery, a New York museum that displayed paintings from prominent German artists during the mid-nineteenth century. The collection revealed the German emphasis on pictorial construction and figure drawing and reflected developments in European politics and the American art world.

Artist Rolf Zimmermann's rendering of asylum seekers in German government offices negates the humanity of the subjects, representing the inhumanity of the asylum process itself. While distinct faces provide the viewer with contact and detachment, a them-not-me experience, Zimmermann obscures individual features with mottled color or with insectlike masks, dehumanizing them.

ENFANT TERRIBLE Martin Kippenberger, to lift a lyric from Elvis Presley, 'was born standing up and talking back.' At least that's how the legend goes. Anecdotes concerning the countless misdeeds [...]

The Weiman government in Germany classified 'Dada' as obscene and put its members on trial. However, through their satirical and critical artworks the Dadaists regenerated German art.