May, 2012
Visual Arts Alliance was hosted by Gus Kopriva at Redbud Gallery for a talk and tour of German Expressionism: Works on Paper from the Kopriva Collection.
Houston curator Gus Kopriva and his wife, artist Sharon Kopriva, have been collecting German Expressionist works for some time. Their collection includes pencil-signed etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, watercolors, and drawings by such artists as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Marc Feininger, Franz Marc, George Grosz, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Edvard Munch, and others.
These strong images, packed with emotional, psychological, and political messages, are from the first few decades of the 20th century.
To view John Lienhard’s article on Gus Kopriva’s book, Broken Brushes, German Art from the Kaiser to Hitler, please visit www.uh.edu/engines/epi2309.htm.
Program venue:
303 East 11th Street
Houston in the Heights 77002
