JANUARY 24 - APRIL 5, 2014
January 24, 2014 6 PM - 8 PM
January 24, 2014 Gus Kopriva speaks about the collection. 5:30 pm
UPCOMING JANUARY 24
“Broken Brushes: German Expressionist Prints by Hitler's Degenerate Artists”
The German Expressionist movement which spanned a time from the Kaiser until Hitler spawned powerful and raw works which include woodcuts, lithographs and etchings by artists who later under Hitler and his Nazi regime were deemed “degenerate.” Many of the artists were persecuted and forced to emigrate.
Gus and Sharon Kopriva, owners of Redbud Gallery in Houston and avid collectors, have generously loaned Flatbed Press and Gallery a portion of their collection of prints from this period. The exhibition “Broken Brushes: German Expressionist Prints by Hilter's Degenerate Artists”, features prints created by the well-known artists Max Beckmann, Lovis Corinth, Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, George Grosz, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Kirchner, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Franz Marc, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde and Gabriele Munter.
The Kopriva collection of prints, which was purchased from American private collections and online art auctions, is a powerful reminder of the generation of outcast artists from the Kaiser to the Nazi regime. The images often display human suffering and the search for an ideal world often mixed with humor and sarcasm. The prints have been shown and toured widely. The most recent exhibition was mounted in Germany at the Technical University of Berlin.
Gus Kopriva will be attending the opening on January 24, 2014 and will give a brief talk about the work prior to the opening at 5:30 pm.