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 WünschePart I: Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic States Prague – Brno: Expressionism in ContextMarie Rakušanová Košice Modernism and Anton Jaszusch’s ExpressionismZsófia Kiss-Szemán Expressionism in Hungary: From the Neukunstgruppe to Der SturmAndrás Zwickl Poznan Expressionism and Its Connections with the German and International Avant-gardeLidia Głuchowska Expressionist Networks in the Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and the Soviet UnionIsabel Wünsche Expressionism in Lithuania: From German Artistic Import to National ArtGiedrė Jankevičiūtė and Laima Laučkaitė Expressionist Originality in Latvia: Between Confirmation and DestructionGinta Gerharde-Upeniece The Ambivalent Affair of Estonian ExpressionismTiina AbelPart II: Scandinavia Expressionism in Denmark: Art and DiscourseTorben Jelsbak Expressionisms in Sweden: Anti-realism, Primitivism, and Politics in Painting and PrintMargareta Wallin Wictorin Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the Discourses on Expressionism in Finland: From the November Group to Ina Behrsen-CollianderTimo Huusko and Tutta Palin Expressionism in Sámi Art: John Savio’s Woodcuts of the 1920s and 1930sTuija Hautala-Hirvioja Early Expressionism in Icelandic Art: Jón Stefánsson, Jóhannes Kjarval, and Finnur JónssonMargrét Elísabet ÓlafsdóttirPart III: Western Europe Early Engagements: Peripheral British Responses to German ExpressionismChristian Weikop Expressionism in the NetherlandsGert Imanse and Gregor Langfeld Flemish Expressionism in BelgiumCathérine Verleysen Jewish Expressionists in France, 1900-1940Richard D. Sonn German Expressionism in Italy: Herwarth Walden’s Der Sturm, the Berlin Novembergruppe, and the Modernist Circles of Florence, Turin, and RomeIrene Chytraeus-Auerbach Expressionism and the Spanish Avant-garde between Restoration and RenovationWiebke Gronemeyer Portuguese Expressionism, or German Expressionism in Portugal?Nina Blum de AlmeidaPart IV: Southeastern Europe Expressionism in Slovenia: The Aspects of a TermMarko Jenko From Anxiety to Rebellion: Expressionism in Croatian ArtPetar Prelog On New Art and its Manifestations: Rethinking Expressionism in Visual Arts in BelgradeAna Bogdanović Tokens of Identity: Expressionisms in Romania around the First World WarErwin Kessler Expressionism in Bulgaria: Critical Reflections in Art Magazines and the Graphic ArtsIrina GenovaPart V: Beyond Europe Expressionism in Canada and the United StatesOliver A.I. Botar and Herbert R. Hartel, Jr. Expressionism in Latin America and Its Contribution to the Modernist DiscourseMaria Frick The Expressionist Roots of South African ModernismLisa HörstmannSelected BibliographyIndex

"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