Berlin Moskau 1900-1950

This catalogue features illustrations of some 800 paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, photographs, posters, films, stage designs and architectural works by hundreds of German and Russian artists, among them Kandinsky, Pechstein, Kirchner, Hoch, Chagall, Malevich, Goncharova, Grosz, Dix, Lissitzky, Gropius and many other celebrated figures. Biographical profiles of more than 500 artists, architects, writers and musicians supplement nearly 50 essays that explore diverse aspects of cultural life in Berlin and Moscow in the context of the turbulent political and social currents of the period, including discussions of such topics as the significance of exhibitions of German art mounted in Moscow in the 1920s, the reception of avant-garde Soviet photography, theater and film in Berlin during the Weimar period, the divergent characteristics of interwar Russian and German propagandistic art, and architectural developments in the two cities during the 1920s.