Floating Angel or Güstrower Memorial
What’s the story behind Ernst Barlach’s Floating Angel sculpture?
– Twofold path to serenity
– A complex gate encircles death
– Floating Angel makes a martyr of a man
Degenerate art
The Night by Max Beckmann
What makes The Night by Max Beckmann a masterpiece?
– War gusto tempered by trauma
– Angularity, violence, and absurdity in The Night
– Futurist art leads into the New Objectivity
Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale
Why is the painting Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale a masterpiece?
– Framing an unreality
– Threat? That bird’s tiny
– Disruption and a dance