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Utopias on Paper, German Expressionism: Prints and Drawings from the Tel Aviv Museum Collection

TEL AVIV.- The term “Expressionism” spans diverse expressions of the modernist current in art and literature, which developed in Germany and in the sphere of German culture in the first two decades of the 20th century. Expressionist art spoke in multiple voices of individual artists and short-lived associations which moved in different directions to expose the experience of a society and a culture in crisis. The common feature of this multifaceted, multilingual totality was the belief in the therapeutic power of subjective-emotional expression. The exhibition “Utopias on Paper / German Expressionism: Drawings and Prints from the Museum Collection” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art endeavors to present the multifaceted aspect of this generalizing term. Its first chapter (November 2011 – January 2012) juxtaposes perce-