The Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context

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).

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

Isabel Wünsche

Part I: Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic States






Prague – Brno: Expressionism in Context
Marie Rakušanová




Košice Modernism and Anton Jaszusch’s Expressionism
Zsófia Kiss-Szemán




Expressionism in Hungary: From the Neukunstgruppe to Der Sturm
András Zwickl




Poznan Expressionism and Its Connections with the German and International Avant-garde
Lidia Głuchowska




Expressionist Networks in the Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and the Soviet Union
Isabel Wünsche




Expressionism in Lithuania: From German Artistic Import to National Art
Giedrė Jankevičiūtė and Laima Laučkaitė




Expressionist Originality in Latvia: Between Confirmation and Destruction
Ginta Gerharde-Upeniece




The Ambivalent Affair of Estonian Expressionism
Tiina Abel

Part II: Scandinavia




Expressionism in Denmark: Art and Discourse
Torben Jelsbak




Expressionisms in Sweden: Anti-realism, Primitivism, and Politics in Painting and Print
Margareta Wallin Wictorin




Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the Discourses on Expressionism in Finland:
From the November Group to Ina Behrsen-Colliander

Timo Huusko and Tutta Palin




Expressionism in Sámi Art: John Savio’s Woodcuts of the 1920s and 1930s
Tuija Hautala-Hirvioja




Early Expressionism in Icelandic Art: Jón Stefánsson, Jóhannes Kjarval, and Finnur Jónsson
Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir

Part III: Western Europe




Early Engagements: Peripheral British Responses to German Expressionism
Christian Weikop




Expressionism in the Netherlands
Gert Imanse and Gregor Langfeld




Flemish Expressionism in Belgium
Cathérine Verleysen




Jewish Expressionists in France, 1900-1940
Richard D. Sonn




German Expressionism in Italy: Herwarth Walden’s Der Sturm, the Berlin
Novembergruppe, and the Modernist Circles of Florence, Turin, and Rome

Irene Chytraeus-Auerbach




Expressionism and the Spanish Avant-garde between Restoration and Renovation
Wiebke Gronemeyer




Portuguese Expressionism, or German Expressionism in Portugal?
Nina Blum de Almeida

Part IV: Southeastern Europe




Expressionism in Slovenia: The Aspects of a Term
Marko Jenko




From Anxiety to Rebellion: Expressionism in Croatian Art
Petar Prelog




On New Art and its Manifestations: Rethinking Expressionism in Visual Arts in Belgrade
Ana Bogdanović




Tokens of Identity: Expressionisms in Romania around the First World War
Erwin Kessler




Expressionism in Bulgaria: Critical Reflections in Art Magazines and the Graphic Arts
Irina Genova

Part V: Beyond Europe




Expressionism in Canada and the United States
Oliver A.I. Botar and Herbert R. Hartel, Jr.




Expressionism in Latin America and Its Contribution to the Modernist Discourse
Maria Frick




The Expressionist Roots of South African Modernism

Lisa Hörstmann

Selected Bibliography

Index