German Expressionism was a movement that rebelled against the tradition of Realism,
             both in subject matter and style. It applied to an artistic movement that lead
             German Avant-Garde painting of the early 20th Century rule. Expressionist painting,
             which developed in reaction to the dormant academic standards of the previous century,
             discarded refined pictorial naturalism in favor of direct emotional expression
             characterized by bold distortions of form and violent color.
             Surrealism is a term coined by The French poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917 in
             reference to his own writings, as well as the work of certain painters, such as Picasso and
             Marc Chagall. In 1924, one of the founders, Andre Breton, revived the term in his
             Manifesto of Surrealism, where he describes a "super-reality" connecting the dream
             The movement is mostly concerned with the different aspects of the unconscious mind
             and representations of the dream state.
             Max Pechstein, an expressionist painter, born December 31, 1881, died June 29, 1955,
             was a member of "DIE BRUECKE" (the bridge) A group of German expressionist
             painters, active just before WWI, who reacted against the impressionism of the Secession
             movement. Pechstein shared the bold color and expressionist distortion of the Bruecke
             artists but in a less extreme and more decorative form than that practiced by the groups
             His painting called "Zwiesprache" (Two Voices) painted in 1920 is of two nude females
             conversing in a landscape. It's condition is unusually fine, with strong, boldly-printed
             colors. The sheet has only some soft creasing in the margins. The subject matter is most
             probably sexuality and it incorporates the angular forms of Oceanic and African art.
             The colors he has used in his woodcut are green, black, brown-beige and white. Color
             becomes largely autonomous and takes on a key role within the composition. Through the
             contrasts bet...