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I would like to alert my readers to a new book on the neglected Austrian Expressionist artist Emma Bormann (1887-1974), by her grandson Andreas Johns, The Art of Emma Bormann , published by Ariadne Press in 2016. Emma Bormann, Universit�t in Groningen Woodcut, 1922 Emma Bormann's art was vibrant, and her life too was unusual. She travelled widely in Europe and Asia, and spent the years 1939-1950 in China. Later she lived in Tokyo and in Riverside, California, where she died.

Charles-Fran�ois Daubigny was born in Paris in 1817. One of the leading artists of the Barbizon School, Daubigny is a significant fore-runner of Impressionism. Because of the impressionistic nature of his oils, which seemed unfinished to the tastemakers of the day, his works were criticized as "rough sketches". Charles Chaplin, Daubigny Etching, 1862 B�raldi 3 Daubigny was a very active printmaker, creating 127 etchings, aquatints, and drypoints, 18 clich�s-verre, and 4 lithographs. I have six of his etchings to share with you. Charles-Fran�ois Daubigny, Le marais Etching, 1851 Delteil/Melot 84 The earliest etching I have by Daubigny is Le marais, dating from 1851 though my copy is from the 1874 printing for the Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Although this is already no. 84 in the catalogue raisonn� of Daubigny's etchings, it is actually right at the beginning of his true career as an original etcher, many of the earlier works being illustrative plates of little significance. I

Starting from 1905 and working up to a crescendo in the 1920s, German art saw an incredible flowering of brilliance in the early decades of the last century. The art movement which encapsulates the work of many different artists and smaller aesthetic cross-currents is called German Expressionism. The formation of the Br�cke artists� group in Dresden by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl in 1905 is usually seen as the starting pistol for the whole Expressionist movement. Things developed very quickly from there. Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein joined Br�cke the following year, and Vassily Kandinsky and Oskar Kokoschka began working in a similar vein. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Elbhafen Lithograph, 1907 Wassily Kandinsky, Orientalisches Woodcut, 1911 Wassily Kandinsky, Motif aus improvisation 25: The Garden of Love Woodcut, 1911 Oskar Kokoschka, Madchenbildnis Lithograph, 1920 Lists of the major artists of German Expressionism usually include all the arti