1920, Carl Lohse, Small Town [Kleine Stadt] -- Albertinum (Dresden)

From the museum label:

 

The radical body of works produced during the years 1919 to 1921 by the Hamburg painter Carl Lohse is, unjustly, still little known outside Saxony. After the First World War, in which he was the only survivor from his company, Lohse came to Bischofswerda near Bautzen in 1919, where a family of patrons enabled him to work as an artist.

 

Lohse's larger-than-life painted and modeled portrait heads are like charged psychograms, with human faces used as an abstract field upon which colour values - independent of objectivity or spatiality - unfold their emotional impact. His view of Bischofswerda, using a spectrum ranging from cool to overheated tones, depicts the town as a surging whirl of rising colour temperature.

 

This exaggerated expressiveness also characterises the Expressionist poetry of those years: "The hot dark", "Burn, blaze, shine!" (Friedrich Wolf), "I'm not mad! Not yet!" (Walter Rheiner), "To finally live life again" (Richard Fischer), "Every stroke is a scream of colour" (Hugo Zehder, 1919 on Otto Dix).

Done