Living, Building, Thinking: art and expressionism

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Käthe Kollwitz, "Brustbild einer Arbeiterfrau mit blauem Tuch [Bust of a Working Class Woman With a Blue Shawl]," 1903

colour lithograph on sturdy tan wove paper, Purchase, 1985, McMaster Museum of Art]

Living, Building, Thinking: art and expressionism uses the German Expressionist collection of the McMaster Museum of Art as the jumping off point to explore the development of expressionism in art from the early 19th century to the present day. The exhibition includes 100 works in all mediums ranging from 16th century European to contemporary Canadian works.

Artists featured include Max Beckmann, Joseph Beuys, Otto Dix, Hannah Hoch, Anselm Kiefer, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Edvard Munch, Sigmar Polke and others.