Der Potsdamer Platz

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's masterpiece "Potsdamer Platz" (1914) is considered an icon of German expressionism. With its Berlin-specific historical and biographical points of reference, it is used as the starting point for an exhibition of German art of the 1910s and 1920s, examining the themes of majesty, melancholy and eros in the big city." The catalogue for an exhibition held at the Neuen Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, April 27 - August 12, 2001. Edited by Katharina Henkel and Roland Marz; essays by Henkel, Marz, Thomas Friedrich, Marion Hoock, Fritz Jacobi, Christian Saehrendt, Sherwin Simmons, Rita E. Tauber, and Katrin Wiethege.