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Informationen zum Autor 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). Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the transnational formation, dissemination, and transformation of Expressionism outside of the German-speaking world, in regions such as Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics and Scandinavia, Western and Southern Europe, North and Latin America, South Africa, and Japan, in the first half of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Gluchowska Expressionist Networks in the Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and the Soviet Union Isabel Wünsche Expressionism in Lithuania: From German Artistic Import to National Art Giedre Jankeviciute and Laima Lauckaite 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 Peta...
