Phaidon 20th-century Art: Expressionism
Contributed by Martyn Wilson on Jun 22nd, 2025. Artwork published in
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Michel Waxmann’s 1969 multiline Michel in use for a book about Expressionism, edited by Maly and Dietfried Gerhardus and published by Phaidon in 1979:
Starting with the forerunners of Expressionism: Gauguin, Van Gogh, the French ‘Fauves’ and individualists such as the Norwegian Munch and the Belgian Ensor, the book surveys the work of the painters belonging to the German groups ‘Die Brücke’ and ‘Der Blaue Reiter’, independent painters such as the Austrians Kubin and Kokoschka, and finally the development of Expressionism into the ‘New Objectivity’, as represented by painters such as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix and Georg Grosz.
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The sans used on the back cover is Univers.
1 Comment on “Phaidon 20th-century Art: Expressionism”
This book is part of a whole series that explores various styles and movement of 20th-century art. There are at least six more volumes, on Symbolism and Art Nouveau, Cubism and Futurism (both also by Maly and Dietfried Gerhardus), Surrealism and Dadaism (by Marianne Oesterreicher-Mollwo), Modern and Primitive Art (by Charles Wentinck), Naive Painting (by Anatole Jakovsky), and Abstract Painting (by Arsen Pohribny).
It looks like Phaidon licensed the series from Herder, who previously published a German series under the title Bildkunst des 20. Jahrhunderts. That edition likewise featured Michel on the cover, paired with Akzidenz-Grotesk.